Word: hardbitten
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...Australia's social project is flourishing. Out on Highway 1, which at times seems more "mono" than "multi," that success is not always apparent; sometimes the bush feels like a decaying museum. Look a little deeper, spend a little time, and the country reveals itself: the hardbitten farmer with a greenie tinge and the Aboriginal painter who likes the patterns and colors in her works (and even more so, the cash from sales of dotty art) defy attempts at categorization. Such layers of identity, and the diversity of the suburbs, schools and shopping malls in the towns and cities...
...across as clean-cut, if a bit excessive. One reason is that nature has constructed him media-ready. Six feet six inches tall, blond hair, blue eyes, He was promoted by colleagues as an "Aryan poster boy," though a hipper, less political audience might conclude that he resembles a hardbitten David Bowie. That star quality was recognized early, in the communist German Democratic Republic where Hasselbach was born. In 1987 and 1988 he was twice jailed by the G.D.R. for publicly insulting the government. Pumped up in prison with the Nazi ideology and war stories of a former Gestapo officer...
Deep in the desk of every hardbitten, wisecracking, deadline-haunted reporter, alongside the bourbon and the Maalox, is an unfinished novel. Typically, the manuscript is not about great events but about what is truly important to the journalistic fraternity: sex, office politics, money, fame and lunch. That, at least, is the message of these three novels by and about newspaper reporters...
...final warm moment of adulation, before watching his name drift off to the Street and Smith's yearbook of history, with all the other Bobby Thompsons, Monte Irvins, and Red Schoendists of baseball lore. It was at once a touching and thrilling moment--for even the most hardbitten of Yankee or Brewer fans. And for the Oriole fan, it almost was like watching a slice of history...
...sublime tracks come courtesty of Public Image (including their classic, previously unreleased in America, debut single "Public Image"), two funky dissections of cultural conditioning from the Gang of Four, and a pair of selections from the new, hardbitten Marianne Faithfull Collectibles include a pair of live cuts from the Sex Pistols' San Francisco swansong (distinguished chiefly by John Rotten/ Lydon's obvious disgust with the whole affair) and previously unreleased tracks by Devo (first LP era), John Cale and Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers...