Word: malevolentisms
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The new questions are all how to effect more egalitarianism, how to effect a political agenda. The old questions, which Hooper assumes answered, examine the agenda itself, an agenda unquestioned by the "new questions." What is the natural basis of conventional inequalities between men and women? Miss Hooper knows the...
In his seventh blockbuster, Sidney Sheldon has a great time inventing grisly ways of killing his characters. A Rumanian rebel, Marin Groza, has himself beaten by prostitutes as penance for sitting by while his wife and daughter were fatally raped. But this time he is unaware that the whip has...
Yet if it hadn't been for that painful cacophony, we never would have met the Moonies. And we also wouldn't have met, before the Moonies, the New Hampshire state cop who took a malevolent interest in the noise we were producing.
One trend is to name teams for malevolent forces, such as the Blast, Sting, Blizzard and Blitz. Three team names celebrate disasters that destroyed much of their native locale: the Golden Bay Earthquakes, Chicago Fire and Atlanta (now Calgary) Flames. Such a breakthrough in reverse civic pride may yet induce...
A great many of the King-Bachman books seem to have been written on a word processor by a word processor. The author often employs three exclamation points !!! where one would suffice, shows a blithe disregard for grammar ("My mother used to tell my brother David and I to 'hope...