Word: jerked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first blush, Bush's plan strikes a chord: few who deal with the government regularly have a good word for those they encounter. On reflection, though, the President's scheme is a heartless swipe at a defenseless group of dedicated civil servants, designed to capture the knee-jerk support of an economically strapped electorate. "It may not be good policy," concedes a Bush adviser, "but it's damn good politics...
...have muscles containing a large majority of fast-twitch fibers. So, surprisingly, do shot putters and weight lifters, who need not only strength but power too. "They have to move a heavy weight very quickly," explains U.S. Olympic Training Center physiologist Steve Fleck. "Weight lifters in the clean-and-jerk event can move as fast as a sprinter." Distance runners and swimmers, on the other hand, have mostly slow-twitch fibers...
...decline was subtle: not the incendiary self-destruction of a Pryor -- no drug overdose for Eddie, not even a sex scandal -- just the makings of the sour dissolution of the elder Elvis, a star Murphy much admired. He put on weight and acted like a jerk. Cockiness shaded into arrogance. He seemed to guest-star in his own films (Harlem Nights, Another 48 HRS.), touring them with the grudging ennui of a celebrity at a Kiwanis gig somebody had booked for him. The star was now as remote as Alpha Centauri. A squadron of bodyguards kept him cocooned in satiety...
Counter's letter was ill-conceived and inaccurate, but in our typically self-righteous knee-jerk form, The Crimson overreacted, escalating the conflict. Instead of talking to Counter and trying to figure out where he was getting his misinformation (from a multitude of students who had come to his office with serious concerns about The Crimson, as it turns out), we trotted out a full page of our standard Armageddonesque anti-insensitivity rhetoric: "unbelievable," "downright scary," "ridiculous," the works...
...narrative. "I am very, very strict structurally," he says. "You can break any rule you want, but you have to have a clue about what the rules are." Morris makes up full-bodied dances that celebrate the pure joy of movement, usually spiked with an irreverent wit. "The knee-jerk response is to assume that a lot of what I do is parody or sarcastic when it actually isn't," he observes. "I'm interested in the story and really good dancing. But you know, you can't force people to get that...