Word: loutishness
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...sure, some players don't mind dressing up and showing off their skills to loutish men. "There's this terrible stigma that if you're attractive, you can't play sports," says Anna Rawson, the rising LPGA star who was named Maxim's Sexiest New Athlete in February 2008. "Men are shocked by how good we are." Many are working for Sadekar to help make ends meet. Most Play Golf Designs players are on the futures tour, still chasing their fragile big-league dreams. By playing in corporate junkets and on bachelor-party outings, these women can supplement their sparse...
...summer, which Palin welcomed in a spirit of transparency and accountability before she became the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee. The Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee had started the inquiry when former public safety commissioner Walt Monegan alleged that he might have been dismissed for not firing the allegedly loutish state trooper Mike Wooten, who was in a bitter custody battle with Palin's sister Molly McCann and was accused of threatening members of the governor's family. The investigation has since been painted by John McCain and Palin backers as a purely partisan exercise, particularly because the committee chair...
...million chance of ever getting pregnant. (You should be able to guess Act Three from here.) So she engages Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler), a white-trashy girl from the nearby town of Dreery, to be the child?s surrogate mother. When she breaks up with her loutish boyfriend Carl (Dax Shepard), slobby Angie moves in with neatnik Kate. In social aptitude, one woman is the baby, the other the mama...
...twentysomething English hitchhiker whose only "travel stories" of his time in Australia and New Zealand were a monotonous succession of boasts about how often and heavily he'd got drunk. His only question about our destination was whether the backpackers' lodge had a bar. Sadly, it seems that the loutish outlook of British youth is not confined to their homeland. Warren Bennie, Auckland...
...target of his wrath was, on this occasion and for many years to come, Gore Vidal, an equally dazzling writer and social critic. Watching their strangely genteel 1968 scuffle on YouTube, we are reminded of the sorry spectacle that intellectual life has become today, polluted by such loutish mediocrities as Christopher Hitchens and Ann Coulter. Unlike the latter, Buckley had a unique talent for making even bigotry seem courteous...