Word: rancorous
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...Cambridge pals meet a decade later at the country estate of one of their number, Peter (Stephen Fry). Bright promise has faded; rancor reigns. Life is a melancholy progression: "Kindergarten. School. University. Black hole." In its bantering way, the movie is ambitious to a fault. When it isn't addressing the lapsing of marital love or the exhausting of extramarital lust, it's got dead babies on its mind, and AIDS, and the plight of friends who would be the lovers of friends who'd just as soon...
...BASEBALL STILL THE NATIONAL PASTIME? SURE, IF the sport is meant to reflect the greed, rancor, farce and tragedy that can be found -- along with the athletic grace and thrill of competition -- in real life...
...correspondent William Dowell and reporter Lara Marlowe for an interview with Assad at the presidential palace on a mountaintop overlooking Damascus. Later, Fischer, Dowell and reporter Robert Slater met with Rabin at his office in Jerusalem. Almost as important as what the two men said was the moderate, relatively rancor-free tone of their responses. That alone is progress...
...take his well-publicized emphasis on pro-work welfare reform. A covert way of pandering to white rancor? Funny, nobody thought so when Jesse Jackson was calling for such measures in 1988. Contrary to popular belief, welfare payments -- including Aid to Families with Dependent Children and food stamps -- make up only a tiny fraction of the federal budget, around 3%. Reform designed to promote work, not dependence -- combining earned-income tax credit and measures to promote, or at least not penalize, savings -- would cost more, no question. Yet there is good reason to think that Americans, who are skeptical...
...pass. If Hall gets the headlines with shows featuring Ice-T on the hot seat or Bill Clinton torturing a saxophone, Leno still wins where it counts: equaling or surpassing Carson's ratings and ad revenue. The difference is that all this was to be accomplished without sweat or rancor. Who, after all, could get mad at Jay? Everyone knew him as a stand-up comic who was also a stand...