Word: mercilessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Think of it. A blond and brazen newspaper reporter makes her mark as a merciless critic of Washington's Balzacian social scene. She marries the boss, moves into a mansion and becomes more of a star than most of the characters she used to profile. After a few years, she writes her first novel, a steamy social satire and, of course, a sure best seller. It is the kind of dizzying ascent that Sally Quinn, the Washington Post's famous acid pen of the '70s, might have chronicled with flair. But she can't: the reporter-turned- hostessturned-novelist...
...tormentor, leader of the alien monsters and -- ironically, grotesquely -- a single mom herself. Since she is a well-armored insect about 14 ft. tall, determined to propagate her kind, and since that activity requires human lives to be accomplished -- as many as she and her innumerable brood can lay merciless pincers on -- she is not a creature to be taken lightly either by Ripley (the heroine) or the audience...
...pockets of all the delegates to this congress, myself included." He also indirectly denounced Stalin's reign of terror throughout the 1930s. "We do not have the right to remain silent about the fact that many middle- class farmers were trampled upon . . . that there was a merciless extermination of Bolshevik guards, the best commanders in the army and industrial officials...
...symbol. Abbas usually dresses in fatigues and dark sunglasses and sports a bushy mustache, but his powerfully built body is turning to fat. He nervously chain-smokes cigarettes and has a reputation as a woman chaser. He can be charming when he chooses, but is often said to be merciless to his enemies. He is believed to have planned a particularly brutal raid on the northern Israeli resort of Nahariya in 1979; the four Israelis who died included a four-year-old girl whose brains were dashed against a rock. Abbas has a considerable sense of selfimportance: during his days...
...television clips are most effective because they reveal Kerouac's conservative character, both politically and socially. A scene from Buckley's Firing Line is particularly tragic. With merciless interviewing poise, Buckley casually questions the seriousness of Kerouac's writing and his tenuous connecting of religion and literature. Kerouac, obviously very drunk, answers Buckley on the air with a string of babblings on Buddhism. Ultimately, Kerouac makes a fool of himself, at the same time highlighting his own inability to fit in with the chic literati...