Word: maligned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virtually every conflict in Dallas is that human oil slick, J.R.: seducer of sisters-in-law, bankrupter of bank executives, agent of miscarriages, avenging devil of politicians, mortgager of his parents' home, suavely sadistic husband-and secretly loving father. (When J.R., after 17 episodes of malign neglect, finally embraced his infant son, viewers responded with nearly 10,000 letters-half saying "Thank God!," the other half saying "Don't ruin it by reforming him.") Hagman developed a touch for light comedy on TV in the '60s sitcom / Dream ofJeannie. He plays the villainy sotto voce...
...Adolph Coors Company, or members of the Coors family, have contributed money or support to national gun control legislation continues to be spread. I wish to inform everyone that neither myself nor my company has made any contribution of this kind. It is unfortunate that unknown persons seeking to malign our company and injure our reputation have taken this dishonorable way of turning thousands of good friends against us.," The editor replies: "I'm hip--it's a good brew...
...Confusing the simply antisocial with the revolutionary, Mailer develops an aesthetic whose chief temperamental characteristic is a malign machismo, still dear to those in the New Left who have fallen under Mailer's spell in adolescence or continue to confuse Che Guevara with the brassy cliche of the Westerns," she wrote. In Mailer's world, "sex is war, war is sexual," and so women are the enemy, to be treated with violence as a solution for male angst...