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...crudeness. NBC's Kath simply smugly insults them - for their clothes, their pop-culture obsessiveness, their eating at Applebee's. It's sneering and unwatchably badly written; it shoots at fish in a barrel and still manages to miss. On NBC's My Name Is Earl, by comparison, Jaime Pressley's Joy may be a moron, but she's an interesting one, with a kind of admirably feral greed. Blair's Kim is just a cartoon idiot. ("It's over!" she declares about her marriage. "O-V-U-R!") If you can't even make your characters believably dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall TV: Remade in the USA | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

Harvard was solid defensively, as well. The defense limited Quinnipiac’s Krystal Pressley, who had been averaging over 20 points per game, to just 11 on four-of-12 shooting, and held the Bobcats to below 37 percent from the field...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Rights Ship by Blowing Out the Bobcats | 12/21/2004 | See Source »

...success of all these reforms depends on the willingness of parents and schools to change. That's the mission of a weekly night class called Parent Partners held in Kings Mountain, N.C. At the close of a recent confessional-style session, Pressley Barrino, 38, a lighting technician and father of two, told how he made some mistakes with his first child, who spent time in reform school. He's doing things differently with his 8-year-old daughter Nakia--reading to her at night and helping with homework. He has even taken to dropping by her school during his lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Parents Drop Out | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...time, Donald Pressley, an AID official, told the Wall Street Journal that AID may have "opened a gray area" when it allowed both non-profit and for-profit investors--like Schleifer's wife and Hay's girlfriend--to use ILBE...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Provost's Decision Dissolves HIID | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...when we agreed to the establishment of ILBE-Consulting, we did not expect nor would we have approved of it providing services to the close associates or family members of AID-financed advisers," Pressley told the Wall Street Journal...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Provost's Decision Dissolves HIID | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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