Word: patheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the lack of plot continuity adds comic flair to the most serious interchanges, the text of The Compleat Wrks really isn't much different than what you'd find on 10 randomly selected pages of the Riverside Edition. With men playing women, pathetic melodrama, the overuse of gaudy props...
"We have pathetic, almost infantile debate. We worry endlessly about `values,' which have precious little to do with the real concerns of the country," he said. "This is not what I went into politics for, and I'm embarrassed. And I'm sure you are, too."
Horror movies these days tend to be self-referential disasters, as though knowing and admitting that a movie is boring and predictable makes it less so. Not Bride of Chucky. Miraculously, this ridiculous gem has made it through the po-mo silliness that infects so many movies these days and...
As Larry rationalizes, at least "that was a learning experience," all the while conceding how pathetic it is for him to get sex tips from Harvard students. Some of his experiences are less educational, however. About a year ago, an insanely wasted graduate student staggered into the store babbling about...
True evil vs. pathetic misbehavior: the Lewinsky coverage unfolds in a drearily gamy continuum; prime cuts and messy chitterlings from the abattoirs of Starr, Tripp & Drudge get mass-packaged in clingwrap and cardboard for the gaudy supermarkets of the information age.