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...These familiar complaints take on new weight in the context of Walt’s larger theoretical framework. The methodical structure of “Taming American Power” makes it easy to read. Walt’s conscientious scholarship may not be as much fun as the snide commentary of Michael Moore or Ann Coulter, but it will leave the reader with a broad understanding of how international power politics works and concrete examples of which American choices have been effective or ineffective. If you want to win a foreign policy argument with a neoconservative...
...egotistic,” “uninspired,” or any of the myriad missives that the author uses against the festival. Instead, I admitted that I could not just appreciate the music. Such an admission is beneath the author, who proceeds with his snide remarks: incompetent journalists, “tough locals,” thieving Rastafarians, and “egotistic politicos.” His comments on the African-American participants are equally uncalled for. While millions of white tourists travel to cultural sites in Africa every year, there is only...
...Republican congressional leaders. Ken Mehlman, the party's chairman and Bush's campaign manager last year, told TIME that viewers at home will think it's "kind of ghoulish, the extent to which you've got political leaders saying not 'Let's help the people in need' but making snide comments about vacations...
...that in the Reagan '80s became unfashionable, even antique. The album that The Joshua Tree displaced from the top of the chart is a revisionist rap record by the Beastie Boys, three well-born white teens copping street attitude but assuming social postures that teeter between preening smugness and snide irresponsibility. After arriving in Arizona, U2 discovered that Governor Evan Mecham had canceled the state's observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. U2 considered canceling the concerts but did something better: made a contribution to the Mecham Watchdog Committee and played Pride (In the Name of Love...
...response to the vagaries of the redevelopment site. Glenn Close plays his wife, gradually torn between loyalty to him and belief that the community should decide its own fate. Mary Beth Hurt and Simon Jones are their intrusive, dependent neighbors: a humbly born and mousy former nurse and her snide, sadistic husband, a failed member of the gentry who was a university pal of the architect...