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...Rocky Roads (Gibson), the "flying rooster" from a traveling circus, and he vainly promises to teach the hens--this coop of flighty, flightless birds--how to soar to freedom. But while Rocky the flying churl plays up to "all the beautiful English chicks," Mrs. Tweedy has bigger, nastier plans. She has bought a machine that will turn her chicken stalag into a factory for chicken pies. The prison camp is to be a death camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Run, Chicken Run! | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Puerto Rican parade was especially awful this year - weather unbearably hot and sticky, thirsts more urgent than usual, it seemed, and therefore, as the afternoon advanced, the eyes of the celebrants glassier and their tempers nastier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Want It to Rain on All 'Ethnic' Parades | 6/14/2000 | See Source »

Brinkley reasons thus: The kind of man willing to do the things required to get himself elected president is, of necessity, a nastier and less moral specimen than the average citizen. Perhaps we should cut him an extra yard or two of slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has the N.Y. Times Gone Tabloid Over Giuliani? | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...file and, come election time, would translate into a rousing round of GOP victories. This has largely backfired. GOP approval ratings plummeted following Clinton's impeachment trial, as the public viewed the party as being up to its old "dirty tricks." The longer the Ray investigation drags on, the nastier the GOP looks. That's bad news for any Republican campaigning on a platform of "compassionate conservatism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long-Term Ripple Effect of Bob Ray's Investigation | 4/11/2000 | See Source »

This school election suddenly turns into some-thing far nastier--a subversive parody of the American electoral process. Tracy wants to win for no other reason than to have another stepping stone to another contest (just like senators want to become vice-presidents, vice-presidents presidents, and presidents popular presidents). Paul is the people's choice--an unfit leader, a complete nincompoop--but the embodiment of American wholesomeness (insert various examples from the past decade here). And Tamil, Paul's sister, is the legitimate candidate. As she screams in her election speech, "No one cares about this stupid election...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scorching Election Wins in A Landslide | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

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