Word: shamelessness
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...despite what you may have heard, a particularly angry one. He was as amused as outraged by the shameless hypocrisy of his targets. In his satire he aimed up, at the powerful, not down, at the pitiful. He often made himself and his weaknesses the subject of his comedy. His material wasn't mean. To compare him to two later comics, one good, one awful, Lenny didn't play the angry old man, like Carlin, fuming at everybody's idiocy, or the stud-bully, like Andrew Dice Clay, spuming a bully's polluted derision. In the 1959 interview, Krassner asked...
Hillary Clinton does not have many friends in the liberal wing of the Democratic party these days. They find her tactics in the Senate, from co-sponsoring numerous bills with Republicans to supporting a law to ban flag-burning, all part of a shameless attempt to move toward the political center for a possible presidential run. Her consistent support for the Iraq War has them positively apoplectic. In a May survey of 14,000 readers on the popular liberal blog Daily Kos, the New York Senator finished fifth among potential presidential contenders, earning only 2% of the vote; first...
...pensioners in this town who live off their Afinsa earnings," she says. "They're the ones who would really suffer." Fructuoso Pacheco, 85, is one of them. The retired farmer has about €18,000 invested with Afinsa. He's angry, calling the whole affair "shameless." But he is also circumspect. "I blame them," Pacheco says. "But I blame myself...
Koenig claims that Johnson’s approach to physical relationships follows four distinct stages: “Empty Promises, Over-Dramatized Thrusting, Inevitable Failure, and Shameless Apologizing...
...samplers” in rap history. From its roots in Jamaican reggae and dub, hip-hop has always relied on the creative reuse of prerecorded material. Starting from simple looped beats of disco and funk tracks (think “Rapper’s Delight” and their shameless use of Chic’s “Good Times”), sampling quickly evolved into montage masterworks by artists like EPMD, the Beastie Boys, and De La Soul.But, not surprisingly in our über-litigious country, the golden age of sampling didn’t last...