Word: sakes
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Carlin is not smart or funny, just outrageous for the sake of outrageousness. He wants to be known as edgy but is still coasting on his tired 30-year-old Seven Dirty Words routine. Even the title of his book, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, which Carlin says will offend three religious groups at once, is no more original than the old bumper sticker NUKE THE GAY WHALES FOR JESUS. STEVE GORMAN Redmond...
Even though Leno’s medium and audience are different, the message, or lack thereof, is the same: entertainment for entertainment’s sake. With each stop on his publicity campaign, Leno made sure readers knew that he promised neither a sappy heartwarming tale, nor a hit-you-between-the-eyes take-home message that contributes to the collective inner growth of all four-year-olds...
...Yaz’s sake, cry me a river! Buy a 50-plus dollar ticket and park your rear in the bleachers like the next...
...what passes for state-of-the art training as outmoded, with an overemphasis on quantity. His own views on this topic aren't easy to grasp. (Both he and Gould use terms - "functional equilibrium," "sensory integration," "chemical energy system" - that don't cast much light.) But for simplicity's sake they might be boiled down to the idea that gifted swimmers know instinctively how to move in water and a lot of instruction only interferes with the process. "You've heard of horse whisperers? Milt is like a swimming whisperer," says Tracey Menzies, coach of Ian Thorpe. "He observes...
...sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic detachment that I find valuable. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise, for the sake of cell phones and Jet Skis...