Word: grunting
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...arms. You can accomplish your goals (or die trying) in whatever order seems expedient: no more invisible barriers. Clouds of dust and smoke float up and block the sun, interfering with the ambient light--war is finally getting its fog. The chaos is astonishingly visceral: you're Joe Grunt, playing your little part in vast events that are beyond your puny ken. This is war the way Tolstoy described it, or Stendhal, or Stephen Crane, seen from the bottom up. Suddenly video games have added a couple more octaves to their emotional register...
...Bruce Springsteen album, Devils & Dust, begins inside the head of an unhinged grunt in the Iraqi desert and ends 50 minutes later with the disembodied thoughts of an immigrant corpse floating down the Rio Grande. In between, we hear from hookers, ranchers, ghetto dwellers, boxers, train riders, orphans, a Jesus and two Marias. Some of these lives are sung in bits of Spanish, for which the monolingual can safely substitute any English words that evoke soul-aching weariness...
...Meatballs, and you're close.) TIME's Josh Tyrangiel sat down with the Fockers (Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand and Ben Stiller) and the Byrneses (Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Teri Polo) to discuss comedy, Cialis, the unexpected tenderness of Kevin Costner and, in De Niro's case, to grunt quite...
...essentially built a half-a-billion-dollar company in a year and a half and imprinted on it his own fanatical focus on the tiniest task. He cites statistics about the organization: 7 million e-activists who have signed up online, 1.2 million volunteers who have offered to do grunt work like knocking on doors and making calls, 47,000 house parties for Bush, even 379,000 letters to the editor. "We call him Rain Man," says a senior Bush aide. "But instead of being able to count a spilled box of toothpicks at a glance, he can rattle...
...professor’s resume and reveals a ludicrous double standard, it is also indicative of an alarming trend currently threatening the legitimacy of the work of those in academia; that is, the extensive use of research assistants and students to do much of a project’s grunt work. Of course, it’s entirely legitimate to acquire help from assistants, but that help must be limited to ensure that a piece of scholarship is indeed a scholar’s own work. When the author himself does not recognize that a text of two pages...