Word: rude
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...fight with a superbuff gym fetishist--a "mirror athlete," Penn calls him. In 1987 the actor did a month in jail for bopping an extra. His four-year marriage to Madonna made for all manner of naughty headlines. He has lost a few industry friends by making rude remarks about their career moves. In his 20s, Penn says, "I spent some time investigating the adventures of alcohol, like a lot of young American boys, and sitting around with a stupid smile on my face or being glum. One or the other...
There’s a man, almost blindingly rude, who obstinately tells me that he was there before me. He has a ticket for tomorrow, but he wants to go now, and he has no reason why. “I just want to, okay...
...have a good relationship with them. This summer they were excellent to me. And if they had wanted to be rude or vindictive, they easily could have prevented me from riding a mile. Ironically, we enjoyed a better relationship this year than we've ever had. The people on the roadside were able to separate politics from sports...
...Solitude (Doubleday; 511 pages) is smart, scrawny, sensitive Dylan Ebdus. He's 5 when his parents move to a hard-luck black and Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mom is a hippie, his dad a painter who spends his days on an incomprehensible, unfinishable masterpiece. Soon Mingus Rude moves in down the block. His father Barrett is a once famous soul singer--he fronted the fictional Subtle Distinctions--now in drastic, drug-addicted decline (Barrett owes more than a little to Marvin Gaye). The boys become friends--Mingus the leader, Dylan the follower--and Lethem spends much...
Cell Phones Motorola's Martin Cooper made the first cellular call in April 1973 on a 28-oz. untethered telephone later dubbed the brick, right. Handsets slimmed down, networks proliferated (and went digital), and subscribers multiplied, producing legions of distracted drivers and rude restaurant companions...