Word: wiseass
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Dark streaks aside, Justified is also, as you'd expect from Leonard (and writer Graham Yost, formerly of Boomtown), a funny show, with taut dialogue and a distinct sense of place. Its supporting characters are a riot of wiseass agents, sardonic thieves and big- and small-time hustlers. Its Harlan County is both timeless and of the moment, plagued with meth heads and skinheads and littered with overbuilt developments left over from the housing boom. (The fourth episode moves the action to Los Angeles as Givens chases a fugitive from his past. It's excellent as well, but the sunny...
...hardly makes her a jock, the Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just, you know, something they kind of wished would happen. But the absence of new Beastie music has had the effect of magnifying the wise and obscuring the wiseass. "That's strategy," says Horovitz. "We figure if we space our music out over years and years, we won't seem so dumb...
...George W. Bush get into the business of enabling minors in the first place? Bannon, who is now a lawyer active in Democratic state politics, is pretty clear on this point: "First and foremost, he was trying to be a wiseass." Shortly after first deploying the card, Bannon ran into Bush and told him of his success with the bogus credentials bearing his signature. The future First Father seemed well pleased...
...easily communicate in chat rooms, personalities emerge from the clutter. "If someone is truly engaging, word tends to get out," says Chris O'Hanlon, founder of SpikeRadio, a network in L.A. It sure worked for Schulz and Wirkus. "The lesson is, if you work hard and are a total wiseass, you can become a star on the Internet," says Wirkus. A visit from a rich bachelor helps...
There was a cardinal rule to successful "popcorneering"--sell only on the visitors' side of the stadium. One can sell just as much, the walk back to Carey Cage is shorter, but foremost you didn't have to put up with those "funny" wiseass Harvard guys...
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