Word: undercutting
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...adolescent years on their respective neighborhood courts. Film makers Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert follow the pair for five full years, beginning with freshman year of high school and ending with freshman year of college, through family struggles, vibrant victories, and finally to the harsh realities that undercut the "dreams" of the film's title. William and Arthur's dreams are born, cultivated, encouraged, exploited and destroyed. The movie shows how and why their dreams of NBA stardom become less like dreams and more like bitter aftertastes...
There will always be representatives and senators willing to further undercut the public's perception of Washington. Newt Gingrich, the number-two House Republican, has tried for years to strike down a Democratic House. As long as someone sees a benefit in doing so, the law of politics--myopic as it is--will provide an actor to play the role...
...Haiti nothing of the kind is at stake, which is why President Clinton staked so much on the inhumanity of the Cedras regime in justifying the invasion that never came. And which is why Clinton was so severely undercut by the deal that gave moral legitimacy to the men whose immorality and illegitimacy was the whole basis of the operation in the first place...
...book, Adler treats jury consultants as a regrettable development, in part because they give further advantage to wealthy clients who already hire the best lawyers. To undercut their influence, he urges the complete elimination of peremptory challenges. The Supreme Court has already disallowed them when used solely for reasons of race or gender. It may eventually abolish them altogether. If not, says Adler, Congress and state legislatures should...
...memoir of Wurtzel's troubled coming of age it might have some sort of appeal, if only a prurient and very limited one, especially to those familiar with the Harvard-specific sites of her antics. But even the interest that inheres in a peer's extravagances is undercut by the fact that Wurtzel is neither a good writer nor an appealing individual. She comes off as an irritating, solipsistic brat. Wurtzel is interested not in depression as a phenomenon, but in her own depression, so her narrative will contain little interest even for depressed Harvard students, who would seem...