Word: venomous
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...Predictably, McEwan himself has come now under fire, with the Muslim Council of Britain scolding him for defending Amis. Amis himself has remained silent, having already weighed in last autumn with a less-than-collegial missive to Eagleton: "He has submitted to an unworthy combination of venom and sloth," Amis wrote. "Can I ask him, in a collegial spirit, to shut up about it?" Maybe he'll end up wishing he'd made the same request, perhaps more politely, to his friend McEwan...
Much of his venom is saved for those involved in the Valerie Plame affair. He accuses Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, of misleading him about their role in the scandal, which caused him to effectively lie to the press. When the truth comes out, he receives a whipping at the hands of the White House reporters. "I could feel something fall out of me into the abyss as each reporter took a turn whacking me," he writes. "It was my reputation crumbling away, bit by bit. And my affection for the job eventually followed...
...Accelerate is that optimistic, but the best bits are. On Houston, about people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, there's venom for the government but hope too ("Houston is filled with promise/Laredo's a beautiful place"), while Supernatural Superserious zooms from summer camp to a Harry Houdini reference to a classic pop climax ("inexperience, sweet, delirious/supernatural, superserious") with giddy confidence...
...Nader is running again this year, for the fifth consecutive time, and he tells me over the phone he's shocked that the hate is still so strong. Liberal bloggers are saying incredibly mean things about him, or so he's heard. "The venom, looking at the blogs and e-mail responses to the newspaper articles, I'm told--I'm really not online; I have an Underwood typewriter--but I see letters. And it's really sad. It would match e-mail for e-mail the worst Jim Crow remarks in the South against African-American voters...
...downright awkward: when Alex and Ellen first interact at a club, the writing becomes far too blunt for the complex emotional situation. In this way, Beane’s words at times threatens to overwhelm his plot. While Diane, who seems to be made purely of plastic, venom, and dynamite, can rhapsodize and finish off with an expletive-filled punch line, the same sort of writing comes off as glib in the mouths of more earthy characters like Mitchell or Alex. The real success in this method of punchy writing is Ellen, whose inexhaustible supply of sarcastic retorts only makes...