Word: harshness
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...tension between wish and reality is written all over Mary and Rhoda, which, for a movie that's not a pilot, looks precisely like one. Granted, it's harsh to compare the movie with seven years of a sitcom great. Yet its script begs the comparison shamelessly. As on MTM, Mary is starting over after a longtime relationship (in New York City, after her Congressman husband's death) and lands a job in TV with an arrogant boss--this time a 33-year-old punk who's made his reputation with ghoulish reality shows...
...said they would scotch the amendment when they confer with House leadership to iron out the differences between this bill and an earlier debtor-default bill passed by the junior chamber. Add to that the threat of a White House veto - over concern that the bankruptcy provisions are too harsh and that the minimum wage increase should be phased in more quickly - and you can bet this bill will be taking several more twists and turns...
...political distinctions are mirrored by longstanding cultural traditions--family, history and home. For the most part, the South disapproves of Northerners' fast-paced lifestyles, harsh winter weather and abrupt manner. And in turn, many Northerners stereotype residents of the South, lumping them into one mint julep-sippin', tobacco-spittin', slow-talkin' conservative evangelist...
...will of the mother that Elian be in the U.S., but I know her better than anyone," said Raquel Rodriguez, mother of Elian's late mother. "If she made that trip it was because she had a person living with her who was very violent, who was very harsh with her, and he had pushed her to be in that situation...
Back when the written word was the predominant news medium, people would tell you not to believe everything you read. Then came the harsh realism of TV news, allowing us to witness wars and congressional bickering up close. But with the powers of new media come new dangers; and never has that been more evident than in the spat brewing between NBC and CBS. The Peacock network is fuming over the alteration of video images of New York City in several CBS news programs in which CBS logos are digitally superimposed on everything from horse-drawn carriages to billboards...