Word: edgier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that I started thinking about what might have happened if we had lost the American Revolution. We'd probably still be controlled by the British, we'd have better movies, Jude Law would thankfully be playing all of Mel Gibson's roles, our clubs would be hipper, our music edgier, our people smarter, our culture more respectable - in short, we'd be better off. Inducing such thoughts surely wasn't the filmmakers intent...
...rest of the staging to be as laser-focused on making Bush seem noble, sincere and decent. For the convention in Philadelphia, the Bush team has chosen as its theme the careful "Renewing America's Purpose. Together." The real leitmotif--pushed by the campaign for many weeks--is much edgier: "George Bush Is a Different Kind of Republican." Mimicking almost exactly the language Bill Clinton used to stiff-arm his party's liberals eight years ago, it is an implicit sniff at the old kind of Republicans who will be gathered that week in Philadelphia...
...made a success of,'" Lee says. "Mysteries, classic dramas, maybe the more conservative sitcoms from PBS." Instead BBC America opted to distinguish itself with shows "closer to the new Beetle than to the Jaguar: vibrant, contemporary, different." While the network is not yet rated by Nielsen, it's the edgier programming--running in blocks called Cool Britannia and the Britcom Zone--that has inspired a dedicated audience following and critical praise. But the channel also hedges its bets with BBC news and more traditional reruns like Dr. Who and, yes, Ballykissangel. "If you liked that kind of programming...
McCain was just sloppy and tired, his aides say, when he began talking about Falwell's and Robertson's "evil influence" on the G.O.P. Though he later tried to say that he had been joking, that this was all part of his Luke Skywalker routine, the comments were much edgier than that. "You're supposed to tolerate evil in your party in the name of party unity?" he asked rhetorically. This is often the way McCain talks. He divides the world between good and evil, and when he is talking about someone he truly reviles, like his Senate foe Mitch...
...basics business. We can't do what we do without fashion. The Gap point of view is that if we don't change the style, the business will get stale." You'll see the change in the form of hot pink suede shirts, leather boot-cut jeans and the edgier 1969 collection denims--a higher style and costlier ($78) fashion jean with details like yin-yang designs...