Word: prick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mordantly juvenile ditty circulating in Nelson Rockefeller's campaign headquarters in 1968 insulted every hopeful in sight: "Scranton's a sissy,/ Nixon's a prick./ Romney's a moron,/ Goldwater's sick./ Nelson's your best man,/ Able and quick./ But who is our candidate?/ Upright Dick!" After Nixon's Inauguration, even the Washington Post's cartoonist Herblock gave him a shave (erasing the famously sinister Milhousian stubble shadow). Whatever else Nixon may have become in the years before his forced retirement, he was deemed for an instant to be presidential. Every President, including Bill Clinton, has a hard fight...
Inevitably, hard core fans will miss the nasty edge of the comic book version, and those wary of Hollywood commercialization will prick up their ears for the faintest whisper of `sell-out,' but obscure British references and gleeful violence don't always merit a $25 million budget. At least not obscure British references. Even those hard-core comic geeks who were down with Tank Girl before she became so freaking cool, ought to get a kick out of this sneak peek into their adorable idol's history. The movie's plot can be appreciated as a prologue, how Tank Girl...
...beguiled London and Broadway with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller in the Beyond the Fringe comedy revue, Bennett has proved to be the surprise marathoner of that dazzling quartet. In his plays (A Question of Attribution, The Wind in the Willows), film scripts (A Private Function, Prick Up Your Ears), TV dramas (An Englishman Abroad, Talking Heads) and frequent pieces in the London Review of Books, one can hear the thin voice of the last country parson. That's Bennett at 60-comic laureate of the cramped, considerate English temperament...
...Democrats got whipped in Tennessee," said Brad H. Cohen'98. "My governor, both my senators and my congressman all lost. After 16 years, my senator [Jim Sasser] got booted out by a prick from Nashville...
...high girls lay on the asphalt while the seniors douse them with mustard, ketchup and flour. They have to mockingly propose to some of the geeky senior men and suck on pacifiers while they're being tortured. With lines like "fry like bacon you freshman piggies," "since you little prick-teases can't follow instructions..." and the command of "AIR RAID!!!!!" the film's hilarity will become a part of your everyday conversation. I guess that's the biggest compliment to a film, if you remember it well enough to repeat it's lines later...