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...reactions, on the other hand, tended to run as follows: This guy is a real jerk; why didn't he make the decision earlier, and why didn't he have the manliness to tell the bride about it in person? That was the articulated, official male response. But off in a range of the male psyche audible only to guys and dogs, there vibrated the sneaking thought that the fugitive groom--however big a jerk, nay, slimeball--had made good an escape that men, in the yet undomesticated zones of their hearts, always applaud. Something in every man abhors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODBYE, MISS HAVISHAM | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Wide receiver Michael Irvin is a jerk on the field, taunting his opponents and screaming at officials. He's not so good walking off the field either. On a live national-TV interview, he started spewing four-letter words, including ones which have other meanings such as "to copulate" and "manure...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: America's Most Wanted Team | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

Rereading the Associated Press accounts, I get the eerie feeling that all this time, my faith in the accuracy of its coverage has been a bit too knee-jerk. If they can't nail the stories which I have first-hand knowledge of, what leads me to believe that they've got their act together on the ones that happen far away...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: A Saturday in the Yard--With Company | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

...judicial fallibility and they have accordingly let punishment mean life imprisonment. The House rejected motions to reinstate the death penalty twice in the last four years, but in the wake of the recent string of murders in Cambridge and elsewhere in the state, liberal Massachusetts may in knee-jerk style join the 38 other states in the Union that sanction eye-for-an-eye justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gov. Cellucci: Veto Death Penalty | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

...people who did have divorced parents were frequently like, 'my dad's jerk,'" Adair says...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Single Daughter Seeks Single Father | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

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