Word: harmlessness
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...been on state TV since Berlusconi denounced him in 2002. Fedele Confalonieri, a lifelong pal of the Prime Minister who now runs his Mediaset network, says Celentano's idiosyncratic show is proof that Italian television is free and open to all. Besides, argues Confalonieri, political satire is just harmless fun: "Television is about entertainment. It's not the media who decides who wins elections; the voters judge the candidates on what they've done." Maybe. But it can't be a good sign if a centrist like Celentano feels the need to take the Prime Minister on. Benigni had some...
Here is the crux of the difference between practitioners of antiaging medicine and more conventional colleagues: the former are using methods and making claims that the latter consider unsupported by scientific evidence. Most of those methods may be relatively harmless except to the bank accounts of clients; others...
Leveled at the average fan, that’s a pretty harmless criticism. No one would even think to badmouth the guy who goes to two or three games a season and just fools around with his friends in the stands without starting up a single chant of “de-fense” or singing a tune the rest of us will join...
...good Hindu because of the animal fat on his cartridges. The iconoclasts might be onto something?the film's portrayal of Pandey as a progressive democrat committed to equality and religious accord is howlingly implausible, given the era in which he lived. Still, it's a harmless piece of idealization in a country that could do with more harmony...
Neighbors complain that the games are overrunning residential areas--and that some organizers are running prostitution rings on the side. The Ecuadorians deny such charges, defending what they call harmless relaxation after a hard day's labor. "This is an overreaction about other issues," says Wilson Hernandez, a leader in the Ecuadorian community. "Volleyball is just the excuse...