Word: rottenness
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...insensitive, but if you?re a Secret Service agent, and America knows your name, you?d better have taken a bullet. Otherwise something?s rotten in the state of the Union. Oh, we don?t blame you, Larry Cockell -? the fault for the current ugliness lies with either Starr or Clinton, and most likely both. We like our presidential protectors tall, dark and inscrutable, preferably with mirrored sunglasses. With an earpiece and a little cord that disappears down past a starched collar. With nothing to say to us. Sure, we?ve giggled at you from time to time, but never...
...careful. If you have rotten kids, they can kick you out after the specified period. Hint: write in an option to rent the house as long as you like. Another catch is that you have to live the full term. Die early, and it's like the trust never existed. It works best for a vacation home because you're not parting with the house you live in and because heirs inherit the house at a low cost. And if they sell, they face a whopping capital-gains tax. Still, without the trust, estate taxes would claim an even bigger...
...direct it toward others." Lucia could be just comedy's favorite device, the useful fool, but Kudrow makes her funny and sympathetic. Her body language is eloquent--she walks like a constipated stork when her arms and tight lips aren't folded in disapproval of the whole rotten world. Attend to the pain in Lucia's eyes and then to the bloom of sexual radiance when she finds a man who says the magic words, "Look for me in any crowded room. And I'll do likewise...
...superstitious, sarcastic man, sometimes rotten to his children, often beastly to his women. He had contempt for women artists. His famous remark about women being "goddesses or doormats" has rendered him odious to feminists, but women tended to walk into both roles open-eyed and eagerly, for his charm was legendary. Whole cultural industries derived from his much mythologized virility. He was the Minotaur in a canvas-and-paper labyrinth of his own construction...
...Finnegan understands America, beneath the surface, as many countries and states of mind, some of them deeply disturbing and rotten in unprecedented ways. A staff writer for the New Yorker, Finnegan spent about six years hanging out among the young on the dark edges of postindustrial America. His technique is narrative journalism (formerly New Journalism, or later, Literary Journalism)--reportage as documentary storytelling. In Finnegan, the dazzling special effects of such founding fathers as Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer have given way to an admirable transparency. The author-observer, like a good scientist in nature, all but vanishes. Finnegan fleetingly...