Word: scolding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...course, tainted Yankee Jason Giambi at least is an adult; teen athletes, however, have started using the same drugs the pros do. Again, setting a good example for kids is a noble argument-but one that society hardly heeds otherwise. If steroid scold John McCain were a woman, he might be pushing laws against plastic surgery among pop starlets, the better to save girls from deadly eating disorders. President George W. Bush denounced steroid use in the State of the Union. "It sends the wrong message-that there are shortcuts to accomplishment," said the Yale legacy student...
...ghosts in Electric Shadows, from first-time female director Xiao Jiang, are old movie stars who entrance a new generation. Our young hero, Mao Dabing, meets his beloved, Ling Ling, in a novel fashion: she whacks him on the skull with a brick. When he recovers enough to scold her, she refuses to speak, simply handing him the key to her flat. In it he finds a private screening room, with posters and reels of ancient movies starring the doomed Shanghainese diva Zhou Xuan...
When conservative pundit and moral scold William Bennett was found, in 2003, to have lost millions of dollars gambling in Las Vegas and elsewhere, the reaction in some quarters was, Hypocrite! How could the author of The Book of Virtues be an honorary citizen of the city of vice and still speak for American values...
Despite all those things, you still should have known better, and this weekend only gives me more reason to scold you for doing otherwise...
...that over the course of four days last week the White House staged a revival meeting with the full choir singing in his defense as the President performed the rites of political redemption. For the skeptics, he named a commission to explore the intelligence failures and included his eternal scold Senator John McCain to sanctify it. He bowed before U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the Oval Office in an admission that the deadlock in Iraq could not be broken without his help. For the believers...