Word: jerkingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...necessary to interrupt Brinkley: "You can't say that on the air, Mr. Brinkley." To which Brinkley rightly responded, "Well, I'm not on the air." He's not, anymore, and he is finally liberated to inject some reality into TV-land, which otherwise throws up as a knee-jerk reaction those democratic platitudes we have all had to tolerate since news became corporate domain. Journalism as honesty? Journalism as the relation of reality? Journalism as acerbic sarcasm? Nyet. "You can't say that on the air, Mr. Brinkley...
...audience was supportive to the point of adulation, supplying ends for his sentences every time Moore paused, he did not hesitate to point a finger at what he saw as "Kumbaya"-singing intellectuals who spent all their time in meetings. "Aren't you tired of the left-wing circle jerk?" he demanded, insisting on the importance of intellectual liberals consolidating with working-class groups. "The working class knows that you feel superior to them," he admonished, and prescribed a diet of mainstream movies, TV, and country music to get in touch with the concerns of the average American. His tour...
...answer all your questions. The one they duck most is the inquiry about their lifestyle and typical hours. None of them will say, "Look, they work me like a slave at Bank X. I work 80 or 90-hour weeks and my boss is a bully and a jerk. Also, if you do the math, I'm not even making minimum wage." You have to start working to find out that part of the equation...
...mean, given to berating him in tandem with statements like: "If we put mamma in a home, she'll die, you know. And it'll be all your fault." But other than this single, salient feature, none of the characters are clearly drawn. We know that Scott's a jerk because he's a Christian minister, which in this context is shorthand for hypocritical bastard. He's also deserving of ridicule because he refuses to have premarital sex with his dishy girlfriend Candice (India Landigran), even though, oddly, he seems to live in sin with her. Just to be even...
...staff's knee-jerk criticism of the University is unfair in this case for three reasons...