Word: jadedness
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It's a job perhaps gloomily reminiscent of Nathaniel West's Miss Lonely hearts, but Crocket says, "You don't get jaded. You just look at those kids. They're as sad as they were 24 years ago-they're as sad as they were 100 years ago."
After playing too much Trivial Pursuit, jaded fans often complain that they have heard the questions already. But for Fred L. Worth of Sacramento, Calif., this happened last June on his first time around. The queries were familiar, Worth claims, because he wrote them. Last week in Los Angeles federal...
The two essays in Finding the Center are drawn from very different periods in Naipaul's writing career, but the contrast is not merely one of youthfulness and experience. Naipaul didn't just become a better writer, he also became more jaded. We first see him as a shy novice...
But the great television theater we have created demands more. It demands action, color, drama, confrontation. About the only way to catch the jaded eyes and ears of the anchormen is to hurl outrageous accusations, to dig up forgotten skeletons, to manufacture blame. An industry of inventive taunts is springing...
Mulroney, on the other hand, campaigned like a lottery winner, smiling perpetually and pumping every hand in sight. He perfected a punchy stump speech, delivering it in French and English with equal ease. Mulroney's wife Mila, 31, turned out to be the election's second-best campaigner...