Word: cruel
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...manner of supernatural beings, the stories of The Push Man are set exclusively in the gritty, working-class world of Japan's modern cities. Mostly kept to eight pages due to their original appearance in a Japanese comic anthology, they are endlessly inventive, compact tales full of cruel irony, quiet desperation and schadenfreude. Editor Adrian Tomine (author of Summer Blonde), correctly points out in the introduction that the naturalism of Tatsumi's 1969 stories are wildly ahead of their time in comparison with the U.S., when the underground comix scene had only just barely begun...
American Idol is really two shows. There's the American half, in which America turns up to petition Paula, Randy and Simon, that cruel trinity of fame gods. And there's the Idol half, which doesn't get going until March, in which the show hypes up its 12 finalists, the better to have a marketable product after one of them becomes champion. So why do the worst singers draw higher ratings than the best? You can thank in part microcelebrity William Hung, who tortured Ricky Martin's She Bangs during the third-season auditions and ended up with...
...been the systematic use of the statements and the scope of their content, asserting a very broad legal loophole for the Executive. Last December, for example, after a year of debate, the President signed the McCain amendment into law. In the wake of Abu Ghraib, the amendment banned all "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of U.S. military detainees. For months, the President threatened a veto. Then the Senate passed it 90 to 9. The House chimed in with a veto-proof majority. So Bush backed down, embraced McCain and signed it. The debate was over, right? That...
...cruel paradox of Hollywood actors is that they work in a fickle, money-obsessed industry in which reputations rise and fall overnight, yet success in the business comes from being sensitive, vulnerable and laying one's self bare before the camera. The resulting meltdowns-from Marilyn Monroe's to Robert Downey Jr.'s-are legendary and have created a booming aftermarket in therapists and therapies designed to help actors maintain peak performance in the face of depression, anxiety, stage fright, creative blocks, narcissistic disorders, substance abuse and all the other ills their profession is heir to. In the 1970s, actors...
When the families of 12 miners trapped in a Sago, W.Va., coal mine found out last week that their loved ones had not survived, after being mistakenly told that they had, it was a cruel inversion of the resurrection story. For about three hours, their husbands, fathers and sons were, in their minds, brought back to life. Then they died again...