Word: dudgeoned
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...laughter, of course, did not fit the occasion, the latest in a seemingly endless stream of public events at which Washington's political leaders work themselves into high dudgeon over the sins of financial wizards who, we are told over and over again, have messed up the world for everyone else. But then, you can act outraged about the same thing only so many times before it all starts to sound stale. These spectacles, the public rhetorical floggings, have become teleplays, as predictable as a daytime soap opera, as comforting as a wet rock. (See pictures...
London blogger Devon Dudgeon created Five-Word Reviews to match the length of gushing excerpts in theater ads ("Don't miss! Moving and memorable"). She says micro-writers crave linguistic variety. But not always. "For Jerry Springer: The Opera, I would have liked to include five synonyms for atrocious," she says. Instead, she went with "Hackneyed jokes and ghastly songs...
...parties come to a natural end. The tipping point came from disclosures in 2004 that funds from a $250 million federal scheme to buy the loyalty of separatist-leaning Francophones in Quebec were siphoned off in illegal kickbacks to Liberal Party operatives. Opposition parties competed in expressions of high dudgeon. "This is a dark time for democracy in Canada," declared Jack Layton, leader of the left-wing New Democratic Party. The first postscandal attempt to unseat the government, in June 2004, left Martin's Liberals clinging to a shaky minority. Push came to shove in November, when Martin...
...Hunting of the President,? co-directed by Nickolas Perry and FOB #1 Harry Thomason, concentrated on the long-running campaign to ruin Clinton, first in Arkansas, then in the White House. The film revved into high dudgeon and stayed there, spicing the allegations of dirty tricks with obtrusively cute inserts from old movies. All that visual noise allowed it to tiptoe past the acknowledgment that, however heinous the methods of Clinton?s enemies, most of the sexual dirt they shoveled was based in fact...
Maybe in this electoral season, when for once our politics are full of high passion (not to mention high dudgeon), Silver City suffers by comparison with reality. Michael Moore, among others, has either raised or lowered the bar on cinematic political discourse. For our sins, we now want something more gripping in tone than an earnest, wearying docudrama. This...