Word: jerkingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, knee-jerk iconoclasm. The habit of a lifetime is hard to break. The very phrase "the President's economic plan" starts the facial nerves twitching into the formation of a cynical sneer. As proposals for reform of everything under the sun come cascading out of the Administration, the first instinct is to assume there is something wrong with each of them...
...party no one can leave. But, not to worry, it ends up as It's a Wonderful Life. And it has Murray, who, ever since his debut on Saturday Night Live in 1976, has been defining the would-be-hip U.S. male -- the frat fellow with wit. The cool jerk...
...refuses to partake of the benevolent Christmas spirit. To such words as "goodwill" and "brotherhood," he responds, "Humbug," not because the second one is politically incorrect, but because he's just a greedy, unfeeling jerk...
...knee-jerk, New York-edged hostility can be grating. (Superman is dead. "Good. I hate him.") What makes it palatable, however, is Stern's hyperbolic wit and a disarming undercurrent of self-deprecation. Stern, who is married and has two children, with a third on the way, often makes disparaging comments about his own looks and his undersized sexual organ. He may be radio's biggest egomaniac, but the insecure Long Island kid who had trouble getting girls is never far from the surface...
...political, knee-jerk response to the radical politics of today and makes very little sense," says Dershowitz, who is currently representing boxer Mike Tyson in his appeal of a rape conviction earlier this year...