Word: hammerism
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...manipulated. That skill served him well two weeks ago, when he refused to allow Patterson and Perry to speak with the Associated Press after they had talked to the American Spectator and the Los Angeles Times. He told the A.P. that he ''felt we needed the national TV hammer at this time.'' The hammer, it turned out, was CNN: on Sunday night last week the story was beamed worldwide, and by Wednesday morning it had made its way onto the front pages of the Washington Post and USA Today. Score another harpoon for Ahab...
...amusingly Katie Holmesian), is assigned interviewing/ghostwriting duties for Collins’ sure-to-be bestselling autobiography. She determines to get to the bottom of what really happened to Maureen that night, driven by a desire to prove herself and her obsessive interest in the pair (both motivations are hammer-to-the-head bluntly laid out in intelligence-insulting voice-over form). In the process, she manages to sleep with Morris under an assumed identity, alienate Collins, and get plenty of standard-issue dire warnings not to stick her nose where it doesn’t belong (wonder if she?...
...FAMOUS FOR THE HARD-HITTING PIECES, USING HIDDEN CAMERAS AND REPORTERS WITH ASSUMED NAMES, AND THEN YOU COME IN AND HAMMER THE GUY. IT MADE FOR GREAT TV, BUT NOT EVERYONE THOUGHT IT WAS FAIR. SEE THEIR POINT? I really don't. Look, because it had not been done before and it had not been seen before, the audience was able to view the process from the inside. It wasn't an ambush. It was an effort to get behind the fa?...
...dropped. For Netanyahu, says a senior State Department official, "it was a very strong wake-up call." Concerned that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would peter out, or that violence would again erupt, Clinton dispatched Dennis Ross, the State Department's special Middle East coordinator, to Jerusalem with a mission to hammer away until Hebron was done...
...pays attention to what you're saying, but if he disagrees with it--if, hypothetically, you're maybe airing a pet peeve about the fact that iMacs have all their ports in the back, where they're hard to get at--he'll come storming back and hammer at you until you change your mind or at least shut up. When he generously introduces you to the guy who runs Apple's iTunes development team, Jobs makes it clear that you're welcome to meet him but you can't print his name. Jobs doesn't want competitors poaching...