Word: laughingstocks
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...year-old throwback who wears them shortish and tightish. If he did that, Shaq opined, the kids "would laugh at me, and I wouldn't be their favorite player anymore." He paused before reporters to dab fake tears with a paper towel. Said he: "I'd be the laughingstock...
...hand, one is inclined to sympathize with and feel profoundly sorry for Willis, making his living by unwittingly making a mockery and laughingstock out of himself. At the same time, this may say something about those who are willing to pay $8 to support this sort of sick exploitation. One wonders who is more pitiable—the performer who is a travesty, or those who are willing to spend their dollars and hours allowing that travesty to exist, and indeed making it a profitable enterprise? In short, who’s exploiting whom? After all, there exists the (albeit...
...Mitofsky, "embarrassing as hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida soap opera played out for the cameras, it revealed the media's dual, contradictory roles: national laughingstock and de facto fourth branch of government...
...Mitofsky, "embarrassing as hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida soap opera played out for the cameras, it revealed the media's dual, contradictory roles: national laughingstock and de facto fourth branch of government...
...wonderful he found his first week at Harvard. He recalled dining with a Nobel laureate and hearing an address by Grigoriy Yavlinsky. The latter he described (in the finest parenthetical name-dropping style) as the future president of Russia. Yavlinsky, a liberal politician and frequent Harvard visitor, is a laughingstock in Russia whose share of the presidential vote has never reached the double-digits...