Word: patheticism
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I'm not saying we have to abandon our species' well-known sense of humor and go around shouting Hallelujah! at every rock Sojourner stumbled on. In the end, in the spirit of science, we want those rocks to become as familiar and even banal to us as the ones...
The new tax bill has something for everyone, it's true: a cornucopia of savings for the middle class, plenty of goodies for the rich and poor--and a dagger in the back for upper-income wage slaves. The most pathetic of these victims are the high-earning slobs who...
Not that Stallone doesn't love action films. He sees them as an updating of "the great mythological tales; we just changed the wardrobe a bit." Rambo was the prototype of the one-man-army film. "Yeah," he says with a laugh, "I strapped on the old covered wagon and...
This paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher's comment after meeting Mikhail Gorbachev pretty much tips Theroux's hand in Kowloon Tong. He is aiming at broad political satire, and nearly any target will do. Both the Mullards are contemptible. She is a snob about all things British who calls the Chinese...
To say the Clintons have politicized the FBI seriously understates the case--from Janet Reno's pathetic refusal to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate political-campaign contributions to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' fiasco in Waco. The Justice Department, the ATF and the FBI have been totally...