Word: hoariest
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Check, check, check. Yep, they're all here, all the spy-movie conventions--right down to the hoariest of them all, two agents meeting at a park bench and identifying one another with a coded phrase. What is not present in Mission: Impossible (which, aside from the title, sound-track quotations from the theme song and self-destructing assignment tapes, has little to do with the old TV show) is a plot that logically links all these events or characters with any discernible motives beyond surviving the crisis of the moment...
...sort of rogue-cop tricks Fuhrman boasted about in his interviews with screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny. Yet on the day of the O.J. verdict, when Chief Williams commented on the public's obvious loss of faith in his department, he could muster nothing better than the police world's hoariest cliche: "The few bad apples that came out in the trial," he said, "are not reflective of the L.A.P.D...
...Stager's) which had no basis in my text or in my head. He said he believed me. But, clearly, he didn't believe me enough to forgo writing a letter to The Crimson (December 10), and what a letter! The letter compares me to Senator Joseph McCarthy, the hoariest of gambits to try to shut someone up, but an insidious gambit, nonetheless...
Americans like to accuse their opponents of forming an elite; it's one of the hoariest cliches of democracy. But Quayle was born not with a mere silver spoon but with a silver ladle in his mouth. He is the millionaire son of media millionaires, imbued with the deepest tribal mores of the Midwestern country club, raised to office by presidential patronage. For such a man to complain about elitism, and media elitism in particular, seems forced. There is something distinctly unbecoming about Quayle's efforts to present himself as a man of the people...
...ONLY BEEN A FEW weeks since the hoariest of the hoary Ivy League single-sex clubs--Yale's Skull and Bones--won a stinging legal battle to go co-ed. But Harvard's final clubs are still bumbling around with a single-sex policy. And now there's a new twist...