Word: screed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard-drugs crowd--Generation H--needed a bard, Clark would be the guy. His Kids was a glum screed about teens, drugs and unsafe sex. At least in Paradise, from a novel by ex-con Eddie Little, the lowlifes have some fun shooting up and stealing. Here two career criminals (James Woods and Melanie Griffith) adopt a young couple (Vincent Kartheiser and Natasha Gregson Wagner) into la dolce venom. There's a droll tough love in this inversion of Father Knows Best, where Dad is given to arias of rage, Mom kills people, Bud and Princess do junk. The tone...
...wished to pay for an incoming fax was based partly, I'll admit, on the fact that I had no idea where the fax came from. (It was in a sealed envelope.) Was I about to pay for gloriously good news from my agent or for another screed from that persistent gentleman who is always writing to accuse me of showing insufficient respect to the Speaker of the House? But I also found myself irritated that the man who spent $1.6 billion for a hotel was intending to recoup that investment partly by charging me $2 a page...
Bret Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho and a longtime McInerney buddy, doesn't seem too worried about the feelings of models either. His next book, Glamorama, due out this winter, is a screed against models and celebrity. McInerney says the passages he has read are dark, something he avoided. "I deliberately wrote a comic novel because you don't go chasing butterflies with sledgehammers," he says...
...Screed; the Weekly Standard b) Wart; Martha Stewart Living c) Celebrity Skin; Celebrity Skin d) Slate; Slate...
...teachers' unions, I say, when I am President, I will disregard your political power," he bellows. "If education were a war, you would be losing it." Dole says he is not talking "to the teachers, but to the unions," but it doesn't matter. Democrats seize on Dole's screed and cast him as a rabid teacher hater, an enemy of education. The two largest teachers' unions pour more millions into the Democrats' campaign war chest. President Clinton vows that he, at least, will stand by America's teachers. You remember the rest...