Word: put-downs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There?s enough wrong with Taboo - a messy book and a less-than-ideal production - that probably no one in good conscience can make a case for Scenario 1. Still, that doesn?t mean the howling critics who are gleefully writing their Scenario 2 endings are treating the show any...
AFP tough talk: Saddam's envoy Izzat, above, lashed out with a typically Iraqi put-down INSULT OF THE WEEK "Curse Be Upon Your Mustache!" An Iraqi diplomat unleashes a hairy bit of invective
WHAT WAS LADIES' DAY? One of the professors, a brilliant teacher, would call on the women in his section only on specific days, called Ladies' Days. The women would sit on the podium, facing the rest of the class, and respond to questions. It was an entertainment, it was a...
No one reads any of us," laments Lillian Hellman in Imaginary Friends, Nora Ephron's new play about the literary feud between Hellman and Mary McCarthy. To be sure, these two writers are remembered at least as much for their spoken words as for the ones they put on paper...
War crimes, nationalism, teenagers, the World Cup, second-rate writers, third-rate politicians: no matter what he's discussing, Haruki Murakami appears strangely, almost disconcertingly placid. During nearly three hours of conversation, emotion flickers across the face of the most popular Japanese writer since Yukio Mishima precisely once. After a...