Word: meaner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...quick to cover for their heir apparent. Of course he wasn’t endorsing racism, they said—he was just pointing out that there are millions of white Southern Republicans voting against their economic interests. I say they are missing the point. Dean is building the meaner, angrier Democratic Party we’ve all been longing...
...lesser degree today, the TV people--come up through the ranks, through the police-reporting side, and they see the problems of their fellow man, beginning with their low salaries--which newspaper people used to have anyway--and right on through their domestic quarrels, their living conditions. The meaner side of life is made visible to most young reporters. I think it affects their sentimental feeling toward their fellow man and that is interpreted by some less-sensitive people as being liberal...
...make no mistake. Amis is after more than just surface glitz: "After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship - marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." And: "Women wouldn't mind pornography if reproduction took place by some other means: by sneezing, say, or telepathy." Like a meaner, funnier Updike, his talent finds its fullest expression in sentences so perfect they'll keep you stuck on a single page. It's in the task of making all those dazzling sentences add up to a novel that he sometimes goes astray. Some of the sharpest words concern Clint Smoker...
That's not Daredevil's redder, meaner older brother you're looking at. That's your first glimpse of RON PERLMAN as Hellboy, the title role in next summer's first superhero movie franchise. "He's a demon who was raised to become a fighter for a secret branch of the Federal Government that investigates paranormal happenings," says director Guillermo (Don't Call Me Benicio) del Toro. "He has a very blue-collar attitude about his job. He's more like a plumber than a superhero." Selma Blair plays a girl with pyrokinetic powers. And on his right, there...
...Caricaturists, whose pen is meaner than the sword, are supposed to believe that cruelty is an inalienable right. Hirschfeld didn't hold to that creed. Or maybe his pen and his personality were too ebullient to be bilious; the Nast or nasty drawing, he seemed to think, didn't demean the subject so much as the artist. He had an inability to find the jugular in a entertainment figure. He did go for the jungular, exaggerating facial features and specializing in a kind of reverse anthropomorphism: he turned men into beasts. To Mickey Rooney, Bert Lahr and Zero Mostel...