Word: gutting
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...gravy to them now. At the end of the day it’ll be their same old constituency shelling out the cash that keeps bread on the table. I’m just not convinced they’ll have to compromise artistically at all. As for your gut-level complaint, your conviction that the deal just smacks of something foul, well that’s a real, legitimate problem. You’re an idealist, my friend. You want to believe in Indie, the idea of great music divorced from money and beyond the reach of the industry...
...most important thing now is for Democrats not to panic. Despite what your gut is telling you, this is not the end of the world. The republic survived one run of the George & Dick Show. It will survive another. But I recognize that for those of us who really, really wanted to send President Bush into early retirement, it's hard to stop sobbing long enough to think rationally about the next four years...
...with anthrax?" The Kerry campaign had been handing out rose-colored glasses to reporters to help them get a glimpse of the President's view of reality. At the same time, Kerry was lobbing charges more wildly than he had before, asserting that Bush has a secret plan to gut Social Security and revive the draft, which inspired Bush to accuse his rival of exploiting the politics of fear. The Democrats threw the charge right back when the Bush campaign launched the "Wolves" ad, which shows a pack prowling a forest like terrorists hunting their prey and implicitly suggests...
Observers say it's not just his lack of a golden gut for the next big hit or a groundbreaking idea that has hamstrung NBC; it's also arrogance. "NBC's [successful] shows masked their weaker spots, which are now more obvious," says Stacey Lynn Koerner, an executive vice president at ad buyer Initiative Media. "[The Apprentice] made executives more confident, and they didn't address the problem." Now if Zucker can work his magic one more time, he'll really have something to brag about. --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles...
...right conclusion," says Shahristani. "He says exactly what he means, and he sticks to it"--something the Bush Administration learned the hard way. "I'm very glad Washington conceded on early elections, or we'd have been in trouble," says a Western diplomat in Baghdad. Sistani "has a few gut core beliefs, and he doesn't change them...