Word: meaner
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...students in Epinay receive such attention, for example - officials see glimmers of hope. "If nothing else, these are 150 kids who are getting attention and staying off the streets," Genestier says. "The street is where we're losing our youth today." Borloo himself identifies the mean streets - and meaner projects - as sources of unrest. One solution: knock down some of those dehumanizing tower blocks. The whole of central Epinay would be a candidate for this treatment; a patchwork of massive concrete blocks, it is instantly intimidating and crushingly ugly. And the center of Epinay isn't the worst...
...loveable waitress with an unfortunate case of low self esteem that results in poor choices of lovers practically walks off the page she seems so real. Equally compelling, Steve the nut, a highly intelligent ego-maniac with deep "anger issues" ("I don't know why, but no one is meaner than a bunch of black teenage girls") will not fail to get a rise out of you. Watching one make the wrong choices is heartbreaking. Watching the other do the same is chilling...
...dirt and mystery start with Miss Dee Meaner, a spoiled has-been child star who will stoop to anything to get back into the limelight. Cookies go missing; Miss Dee starts hanging out with Indy Sykes, a suspicious dictator-look-alike; the ship gets hijacked—possibly by a great white shark—and a Private Eye gets on the job to discover what all the chaos is about...
...defiance, like the raggedness of the 1950s beats. Actors showed stubble in movies only when their characters had been through the wringer or on a bender; even rebels like Brando, Dean and Clift were smooth cheeked. But when Clint Eastwood rode through those Italian westerns in the '60s, a meaner, more maverick kind of frontier hero was born, an amusingly amoral gunslinger whose standard equipment was a Colt Peacemaker, a cheroot, a sarape and a five-day stubble. In 1975 when Italian Designer Giorgio Armani started to show clothes that would turn menswear inside out, his models sported jackets...
...indicated that it will not strike. Said United Steelworkers Negotiator Paul Rusen: "We will go to work, be patient and in 18 months be better off." Citing the company's modern plants, John Jacobson of Chase Econometrics said Wheeling-Pittsburgh, if it comes out of bankruptcy "leaner and meaner," could be in a stronger position than its competitors. TELECOMMUNICATIONS David vs. Goliath, Round...