Word: fiending
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...although the expected buckets of bodily fluids are there, “Venom” lacks suspense and tension. The killer’s identity is known from the beginning, eliminating the whodunit element so crucial to keeping most slasher flicks watchable. And when the fiend is not killing people during the day, he’s driving around town as if his tow truck were an ice-cream truck...
...eternal laws of the genre that every fictional serial killer must have a grisly idiosyncrasy. Even Cormac McCarthy, a novelist to whose name the phrase "American master" frequently attaches itself, must bow to this rule. Thus Chigurh, the coldly philosophical fiend of No Country for Old Men (Knopf; 309 pages), McCarthy's first book in seven years, carries a signature weapon, a handheld pneumatic stun gun of the kind used on cattle in slaughterhouses. And it's not just distinctive! It baffles investigators, and it's handy for breaking locks. It's like a Swiss Army knife for psychos...
...person Orange County staff compete head-to-head with the greener troops of the Register, the Times stories are usually better written and more analytical. Yet the Times cannot match the Register's coverage of virtually everything in Orange County that moves, talks or flashes bright colors. Anderson, a fiend for market studies, responded to reader surveys this fall by expanding the business pages and adding entertainment and fashion sections. "The Los Angeles Times has excellent foreign and national coverage, but its weakness is in local coverage," says Anderson. Observes Threshie: "We've identified the Register as the Orange County...
...same creature who eats a pencil, a typewriter, and a phone, all while trying desperately to get a letter to Santa in “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.” Maybe little kids are getting dumber, but not only did I refrain from becoming a cookie fiend from this monster’s influence, I also never ate a typewriter...
...felt as if I had been run over but not hurt." Others, including Aiken, complained bitterly about "this self-appointed judge and executioner." Jarrell replied in print that "it is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad." In private he was a shade more merciful. He wrote but then urged an editor not to print a review of an Archibald MacLeish book: "It would depress and vex the poor guy and do no good...