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...darling who's available to win his heart - should cue you that Observe and Report isn't going to have the courage to follow the premise to its logical conclusion. As ballsy as the movie is, it has one undescended testicle. It's bound to turn this disturbed cur into an underdog, and then a top dog. The bitter aftertaste that was permitted, in fact encouraged, in '70s movies is virtually verboten today. A feel-good ending is mandatory, even in a comedy like this, which promises to be transgressive because it's the first major-studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Observe and Report: Travis Bickle, Mall Cop | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...months, the candidate was passing out chocolate hearts to her press corps as recently as Valentine's Day. This, too, is part of the saga: since the early 1980s, Hillary Clinton has tried charming the press in between denunciations - they way you might say "good doggie" to a growling cur while reaching for the pepper spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clintons K.O. Favorite Foe: The Media | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...making a token $1 contribution to his class reunion gift, and encouraged others to join him.Byron R. Wien ’54, the chief investment strategist at Westport, Connecticut-based Pequot Capital who has served as a member of the executive committee of the Committee of University Resources (CUR), an advisory group of major alumni donors, says that he also refrained from donating this year as a result of the resignation.“The fact that [Summers] is no longer there is discouraging to some,” says Wein, who has previously endowed a professorship at the Business...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Post-Summers, Large Gifts in Limbo | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...State for Northern Ireland Tom King arrived at Belfast city hall for a luncheon, he had to run a gauntlet of angry Protestants who pushed him, threw eggs and hurled insults. The Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the militantly Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, denounced King as "a white-livered cur" and "a yellow-bellied coward." On Saturday, tens of thousands of Protestants converged on the city hall, where they set aflame the Irish tricolor and an effigy of Thatcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Dec. 2, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Bookstores around Minneapolis' Convention Center reportedly did not have it in stock, which was one scrap of good news for Disney president and COO Robert Iger. A leading candidate to replace Eisner, Iger cannot be helped in his bid by his portrayal in DisneyWar as Eisner's beaten cur--a disrespected, whiny No. 2 with poor judgment, serving a CEO who wanted a nonthreatening deputy to "take all the s___" of running a company. And Eisner says more than once that Iger is unfit to take his job. Iger, he says, "can never succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tragic Kingdom | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

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