Word: patheticism
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It's embarrassing but true: I'm a disposable-camera junkie. Ever since my last real camera started making pathetic whirring sounds as it struggled in vain to advance the film, I've lived in denial, telling myself I'd buy just one more disposable to tide me over. That...
NAME: New York Post AGE: 198 OCCUPATION: Tabloid/Clinton basher/would-be political journal BEST PUNCH: In reporting the Baldwin rebuke, referred to him as "underemployed," "portly" and "pathetic"; two days later, ran an unflattering photo of him, left, under the headline FROM HUNKY TO CHUNKY
NAME: Bill ("Deadhead") Walton OCCUPATION: Trash-talking basketball commentator for NBC BEST PUNCH: Called Johnson's play in Game 4 of the NBA finals a "pathetic performance by this sad human being...a disgrace to the game of basketball, to the NBA"
And why not? She virtually invented movie stardom. It was Pickford who first kindled the wildfire of film-fan ardor; Charlie Chaplin, no doubt greater, was also later. And it was the 5-ft. pixie, known for playing cute or pathetic little girls, who first made the moguls pay huge...
Of course, I knew that my name is the most superficial, arbitrary thing about me. The deeper elements of my life that I wanted to leave behind--forgive me if I don't go into too much detail here--would take a hell of a lot more work than filling...