Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reaction to ridicule as Mr. Smith is to hunt reporters down and punch them out--until Jean Arthur's hardbought worldly wisdom is put at his service. The innocent is not good with words, so fists must serve--as Stewart shows when he tries to taunt the glib C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) into fighting him in The Philadelphia Story. Even saintly George Bailey terrorizes his own children before rushing out to do violence to himself...
...Studio City. He sees himself as a kind of digital Robin Hood among a corrupt and venal press. "Journalists aren't supposed to make money," he says, in a tone that's spoiling the taste of my Frappucino. "I've got enough to feed me and the cat, Dexter. And enough to shine my shoes...
Drudge (and Dexter) lives in a six-room apartment in downtown Hollywood, where he does his reporting out of a homemade geekatorium: one TV showing CNN, another MSNBC, a third tuned to a direct-broadcast satellite. Rush Limbaugh, a fan and spiritual brother, blares out of one of the radios. Drudge's police scanner is crackling pure L.A. bad will. And of course, there are computers--three of them. They are his two-way pipeline to the Net. In the past 24 hours, 1,796 E-mail messages have poured into his In box--more than usual because...
...want to define ourselves, rather than letting a name define ourselves for us. We will, if we are lucky, find our callings and make their fulfillment our goal. And we will, I hope, take to heart the words of Charles William Eliot (class of 1853) inscribed on the 1890 Dexter Gate, and serve our country after we leave...
...could they be otherwise? If reporters had the license of artists, one would have been able to read the California cultists' last-minute thoughts as they slipped the plastic bags over their heads, and to understand their terrible bliss. One might have known if James Earl Ray (or Dexter King) was lying...