Word: venality
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...that suits Drudge, 30, just fine. The son of a lawyer and a social worker, he worked his way into the celebrity-gossip business from the bottom--the CBS gift shop at Studio City. He sees himself as a kind of digital Robin Hood among a corrupt and venal press. "Journalists aren't supposed to make money," he says, in a tone that's spoiling the taste of my Frappucino. "I've got enough to feed me and the cat, Dexter. And enough to shine my shoes...
...Donald Antrim, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace, last year's young literary comet. Only two months after Franzen's complaint, Wallace made a connection with Infinite Jest, his 1,000-page opus about an early 21st century North America splintered by drugs, fanatics and a business ethic so venal that even the months of the year have product names...
...This is venal and profane desecration of the sacred banks where the successful (and totally non-violent) American civil rights revolution, and the revolutions in India and South Africa, found their roots...
Please make this venal philistinism a concern of yours so that the nation can learn what is being done to the heart of the town where her revolution, her literary golden age, came to flower...
...many pundits, historians and Republican politicians eulogized him as a great but tragic figure who had managed to achieve redemption after slithering away from the Presidency in disgrace. This portrayal is a ludicrous misrepresentation of a man who actually attempted to impose his own brand of vicious and venal fascism on America. Yet, partially due to such revisionism, Nixon is almost certain to fare better in the historical record than his first vice president Spiro Agnew, who died two weeks...