Word: hammed
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...1950s he helped the young and ambitious Naipaul secure work as a book reviewer for the British magazine the New Statesman, and displayed an avuncular warmth that Naipaul warmly recalls. But Naipaul now conducts a shameful hatchet job on his late benefactor's reputation, depicting him as the plodding ham of English drawing-room novelists and wondering if their friendship lasted "because I had not examined his work." Sam Selvon he boasts of having insulted face-to-face during a BBC radio interview, by referring to one of Selvon's books as "wretched." And Nirad Chaudhuri, in perhaps the least...
Musharraf's eight years in power have seen unprecedented economic gains, a freer media and better infrastructure, but his increasingly ham-fisted attempts to stay in power have eroded public confidence. A recent survey by the U.S.-based International Republican Institute found that Musharraf's ratings have reached rock bottom. "As the national mood continues to sour, President Musharraf continues to bear the brunt of this voter dissatisfaction and his approval rating has dropped to an all-time low of 21%, from a high of 63% in September 2006," says the report...
...roundup in Lapland. For his 50th birthday, the chef spent 12 days biking the entire length of Finland, savoring every mile of the journey. His menu is an ode to the land, its traditions and its caretakers, featuring items like bread made from birch-bark flour, and sauna-cured ham from pigs raised for flavor rather than volume. "I try to show people?both Finns and foreigners?that Finnish food is very good food," says Maulavirta. "We need to support small producers and stay close to nature...
...uniform. Bhutto has made the deal conditional on Musharraf quitting the military, but the dictator may be reluctant to surrender what remains the principal source of his authority. The military, however, while losing the presidency, would stand to regain popular support that has been eroded because of Musharraf's ham-fisted attempts to stay in power over the past few years...
...distinctively Asian work. Miramax bought the 2001 Stephen Chow movie Shaolin Soccer - then the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong's history - only to recut, dub and delay the new version's release for almost two years. When it finally emerged, many fans of the original thought it ham-fisted. In the Jackie Chan pic Armour of God, the brothers excised a narrative back story that had served to explain the tension between Chan's character and a love interest. Fearing such treatment when the Weinsteins acquired the award-winning Japanese animé feature Princess Mononoke, the film's producer...