Word: relentlessness
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...away with this thing) and hysteria (no, we're not) alternate among the well-played accidental criminals. We do find points of identification with them. And heaven knows, some of us are fed up to the teeth with movies glossily restating humane sentiments. Finally, though, Berg's relentless, youthfully enthusiastic assault on conventional pieties grows tiresome. And we begin to choke on laughter that was from the outset pretty dubious...
...nothing like the well-mannered setting of the courtroom. The hearing could look more like a World Wrestling Federation match, a forum where Starr's words could be drowned out by jousting between, say, Barney Frank, Democratic maestro of the verbal stiletto, and Bob Barr, the humorless but relentless Republican former prosecutor. The House Judiciary Committee includes some of the most ideological members of each party, politicians more likely to go for the jugular than the essence of a witness's arguments. Starr will have to defend the logic and fairness of his actions in a place where judicial precedents...
...live version of Friends in Low Places stretches on for almost nine minutes! And, to push Double Live, he's planning one of the most ambitious promotional campaigns of the year! Says Joe Kvidera, general manager of Tower Records in Chicago's Lincoln Park: "He's just so relentless promoting his stuff. It's kind of scary...
...this century. Still, the Dantesque calamity that hit the isthmus last week may have taken suffering to a new plateau. As many as 10,000 people were estimated dead in the battered countries of Nicaragua and Honduras, while some 2 million were left homeless, in the wake of the relentless rains of Hurricane Mitch. In all, the storm caused a staggering $3 billion in damage--more than half the combined Nicaraguan and Honduran gross domestic products...
...when she was a struggling actress, a profession in which it is assumed everyone lies about his or her age; it was only for consistency's sake, she claimed, that she continued lying once she became a writer. What Weston left unsaid is that given Hollywood's relentless, cannibalistic hunger for the new thing, TV writers too lie about their age all the time, often shaving years and suspiciously dated credits (Who's the Boss? Uh-oh) from their resumes. A thirtysomething friend of a friend of a friend of mine, a comedy writer, even had plastic surgery...