Word: meaner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What if somebody is killed during play? It's possible. More and more beef is flying around faster and faster. Players get meaner and meaner. The escalation may result in an incident in which one player will never...
...unconvincing, and the dialogue sounds like parody: "I can look at myself mornings, Charlie. Sounds to me like you're havin' problems in that department." For hard-boiled crime fighting, CBS's Wiseguy, with Ken Wahl as an undercover cop trying to infiltrate the Mob, is smarter and meaner...
Reagan as symbol of America, as angel of our better natures, as reconciler of our meaner aspects into a smiling strength, as folksy commander of a worldwide empire -- all these were images too high or too deep for ordinary political criticism. How he came to that eminence was a matter of shared history between him and the American electorate -- shared innocence about the responsibilities of great power, about what he deplores as "government" in keeping the accounts of a great nation and a world power...
...waging from the edge of a cliff. For a considerable time, Penn State's offensive star was not D.J. Dozier but Punter John Bruno. While it is true that, in the final analysis, the Lions seemed a bit smarter than Miami, it is truer that they were a lot meaner...
...driving beat and chanted lyrics echo the pulse and pitch of inner-city streets. But rap music also draws out a meaner side of ghetto life: gang violence. When some 14,500 fans poured into Long Beach Arena near Los Angeles last week for a concert featuring the popular rap group Run-D.M.C., more than 300 members of black and Hispanic street gangs swarmed through the crowd, attacking everyone around them. Audience members struck back with metal chairs and whatever else came to hand, until police armed with batons broke up the concert. Forty-five people were injured, including...