Word: dowd
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...Other notables include Malik (Collins Pennie), who broods, and sweet Jenny (Kay Panabaker), who looks as though she just wandered in from the set of a Jane Austen movie. Both of them are studying acting with Alvin Dowd (Charles S. Dutton), equal parts teddy bear and therapist. "This is the theater, Malik," Mr. Dowd says, interrupting a passionate monologue, in which Malik is overacting even more than Pennie. "Not the street." It's such a cheesy line, but Dutton delivers it gently enough that you want to run away to Manhattan and perch at his knee...
...banning a beloved pastime of - shooting defenseless animals from aircraft - is introduced in the Senate • Clear Channel is not interested in syndicating a radio show hosted by, so we may never get to hear blithering twaddle like this • demagoguery of is noted by Carl Bernstein and Maureen Dowd • hated reporters are told by that "our troops are willing to die for you" so "how 'bout ya quit makin' things up" in honor of the American soldiers so grotesquely exploited by • quitting speech of is ridiculed by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart and William Shatner and this...
...Dowd, Maureen •defense of Obama's leisure activities by in a column that also contains a devastating one-sentence summation of Bush's ignorance, arrogance and incompetence gets Karl Rove's dander...
...Indeed, Marshall was, or would have been, the eighth person Dowd cited in her 16-paragraph story, which quoted four sources directly. It's that cherry-picking of others' thoughts and opinions that agitates her detractors, of whom she has many - even (or especially?) within the Times newsroom. In one Dowd column on anti-Semitic remarks made by Mel Gibson in 2006, more than half the text comprised direct quotes from her friend New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier. "It was seven paragraphs of a 13-paragraph story," grumbles one Times staffer...
...fair, to write as many columns as Dowd does (two a week since 1995), writers can become a little like idea magpies, taking whatever shiny object they can find to make their creation robust and attractive. Dowd has to make her voice heard over all the political static that constantly buzzes in the blogosphere. And, inevitably, mistakes slip through. Or she plum runs out of inspiration on any given topic and falls back on less-than-original notions...