Word: grueling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wants to read salacious material about Elizabeth Taylor or Elvis can pick up a supermarket tabloid. These media outlets have been relegated to the margins, and hence have freed up the bulk of the media to what New Yorker editor David Remnick has called "infotainment...a fairly weak gruel." That is, all the news that's fit to sell...
Every child under five receives a plastic bracelet, which entitles the wearer to a protein biscuit and a bowl of gruel. The bands are coded; blue for severely malnourished; red for those on the verge of death...
...view of mass culture. To him the TV set was both America's anus and its oracle. He was a history artist, working in a real-things-in-the-real-world vernacular that was, by turns, scabrous, brazenly rhetorical and morally obsessed. Compared with the thin, overconceptualized gruel that most political art in postmodern America has become--the stuff the Whitney normally favors--Kienholz was red meat all the way. Which doesn't mean that his output was uniformly good. An item like The Ozymandias Parade, 30 ft. long and including hundreds of figures, from life-size horses to tiny...
...offers earned-income tax credits for the poor but makes up for this leftish move with a surfeit of new tax breaks for business. It's an attempt, in other words, to mix L.B.J., Reagan and Ross Perot -- which is why it comes out as such a flavorless gruel...
...after walking for three days and two nights to reach this place from their home village 31 miles away. A nurse slips intravenous tubes into barely visible veins and covers each man with a gray blanket. With stomachs too cramped to tolerate food, the men ignore the cans of gruel placed at their side. The nurse predicts that neither will survive to evening...