Word: springered
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...moment. Each argument (police brutality, abortion choice and so on) instantly deploys its predictable pros and cons. I know all your arguments, you know all my arguments. If a man's presidential ambition is to see America continue as an afternoon talk show, a sort of brawling Jerry Springer spectacle from sea to sea, then by all means seize each emotional agitation as it flies through the air and do a segment on it. We live in an age of gladiatorial jaw-jaw, of moral polarization as entertainment...
Along the way, Dirt suffers through numerous mishaps, mostly situations set up solely for the purposed of forcing an easy laugh; he is caught in a molar-shaped hot air balloon, seduced by a trailer trash temptress played by Jaime Pressly (Tomcats, Jerry Springer: Ringmaster) at a carnival, swung like a doll in the jaws of an enormous crocodile and finds himself on the losing end of multiple encounters with human excrement...
...Coward once observed that television wasn't something to watch - it was something to be on. This take partly explains this current obsession that nonentities can rise above their station in life if only they can be on a TV show, be it "Jerry Springer" or "Divorce Court." The current popular location for self-exposure is "Survivor." Unlike many of the literati, I find certain saving graces with the program. For one thing, the very word "Survivor" is now less likely to conjure up the image of a mediocre '80s band providing music for mediocre Sylvester Stallone movies...
Kuusisto played a major role as Harvard's backup goaltender on the 1999 team that won the national championship in Minneapolis. When Crystal Springer '00 re-injured herself in the national semifinals against Brown, Kuusisto started the national championship game against New Hampshire, which Harvard won 6-5 in overtime...
...Feigenbaum takes over the third base spot that was held by Crystal Springer '00, who is now an assistant hockey coach at Princeton...