Word: scalped
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...presidency that has been beset since its inception by miscalculations and self-inflicted wounds. Clinton, in fact, was still stumbling from the missteps of the preceding week. His balmy decision to have his hair trimmed on Air Force One by a Beverly Hills coiffeur put the presidential scalp in national headlines, while a cronyism scandal in the White House travel office pitted Clinton's staff against the Justice Department. Later Secretary of State Warren Christopher had to telephone news organizations to contradict a speech by a top aide who had stated in public what many had been saying in private...
...which leaves little room for professional comedians, let alone filmmakers with a polemical ax to bury in some foolish politician's scalp. How can they parody something that is already the lowest form of public discourse...
Robert says he requested the maximum number of tickets even though he knew that no friends or family members would attend his graduation. He says he planned all along to scalp the tickets...
...species in Hollywood. African Americans have already made it quite clear that they are fed up with appearing in movies as muggers, pimps and other disreputable characters. Arab Americans say they are sick of being typecast as terrorists. And Native Americans have had it with being portrayed as brutish scalp-craving savages. Now gay activists are taking to the streets to decry the growing number of movies that, they say, are stereotyping them as psychopathic killers...
...guards took away the chess set he made from tinfoil, Anderson asked Sutherland to teach him French. Sutherland also kept them occupied with lectures on agriculture and his Volvo car. One day at the end of 1987, overcome by frustration, Anderson banged his head on the wall until his scalp bled. But later, when a French hostage, Marcel Fontaine, said he hoped not to die a prisoner, Anderson replied, "I don't want to die anywhere." Like Anderson, Sutherland experienced days of despair. Several times he tried, but failed, to suffocate himself with plastic bags...