Word: mercilessness
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Imagine a busy street corner in downtown Oakland. Some bandana-wearing homes are chilling by a bench. A televangelist pleads for money from behind the window of a hardware store. A Red Hot Chili Peppers album is blaring out of a six foot boom box, and the merciless Californian sun is beating down upon the whole scene like a catalyst for a violent reaction...
...popular and profitable and newly born FORTUNE a critical success, Harry Luce, then 36, was on the verge of becoming the nation's most powerful magazine publisher. Clare Brokaw -- journalist and playwright, future Congresswoman and ambassador -- at 31 was Manhattan's paradigmatic gay divorcee, renowned as much for her merciless wit as for her delicate porcelain beauty...
FAIR's bimonthly magazine, Extra!, draws attention to controversial stories that have been killed by TV stations, newspapers and magazines. It is probably best known for its merciless scrutiny of the guest lists of programs such as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and Ted Koppel's Nightline for evidence of cultural or political bias. One study determined that 90% of the U.S. guests on MacNeil/Lehrer were white and 87% were male, while the corresponding numbers for Koppel's show were 89% white and 82% male. Chris Ramsey, director of program marketing for MacNeil/Lehrer, defends the program by noting that it cross-examines...
...court of public opinion, as the Palm Beach rape case proved again last week, the rules can be merciless compared with those of a court of law. In the | public eye, a defendant may be judged guilty until proved innocent, all evidence is admissible, all tactics are acceptable. Perhaps with that in mind, the defense team for William Kennedy Smith continues to rake through his alleged victim's history in search of scandal. But last week the prosecution resurrected some ghosts from Willy's past -- ghosts who may yet come to haunt him even if they never have their...
...with racial bias than with the failure of such groups to measure up. Those sentiments are, of course, rarely voiced in polite society. When they are (as by the likes of former Los Angeles Dodgers vice president Al Campanis, who observed that blacks lack "necessities"), condemnation is quick and merciless. Americans, after all, draw little pleasure from hurting people's feelings, especially those of the self-declared downtrodden. Such solicitude, however, does not translate into acceptance of affirmative action, which is widely perceived as little more than the elevation of incompetents beyond their ability...