Word: shamelessness
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Stone has utilized his fundraising skills and "shameless" asking abilities for Harvard as chair of its two most recent capital campaigns. One of these is the current five-year, $2.1 billion drive that began last May. The campaign will be the largest in the history of higher education...
...film will have lots of fancy MTV-style montage editing, shameless product endorsements and poorly-acted director appearances. The kids will go crazy for it. McDonald's will put scenes from it on their Happy Meal packages. I'll be able to retire before I'm 30, and I will live in a Beverly Hills mansion with 17 pools, and Van Goghs on the walls, and beautiful naked dancing men in every room...
...bring in the stenographer for a full confession. At a time when storytelling has largely been ceded to film-makers--when Pulp Fiction causes more chatter than pulp fiction--American Tabloid is a big, boisterous, rude and shameless reminder of why reading can be so engrossing and so much fun. The secret, of course, is language. When it is used well-which in Ellroy's case means being pared down to taut, telegraphic sentences, subject-verb-blooey!-one word is worth a thousand pictures...
...corn nibblets with the clientele of an elementary-school cafeteria in Alexandria, Virginia�a direct hit in the public relations war over Republican plans to curb the growth of the school-lunch program. Wounded Republicans cried foul, with Congressman John Boehner of Ohio declaring, "There is no tactic too shameless, too low or too outrageous for this White House." The G.O.P. was losing the food fight...
...SORDID TRUTH hidden by the Committee on House Life is the following: sometimes people hate where they live. Sometimes they only mildly dislike it. Sometimes they don't care. Some shameless individuals actually love their houses. Interestingly enough, many find domestic bliss by moving away from the river--where they thought they'd never miss a moment of the Harvard experience--to the Radcliffe Quad...