Word: jabs
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...damned to behave criminally? Was Saddam damned to be Saddam? Are we damned to be in Iraq? It is not even necessary to look this far outside the book; the moral shortcomings of shifting the blame to demonic forces are readily apparent within it. Perhaps attempting to take a jab at President Bush’s policy on homosexuality, Mailer’s narrator reveals that he “took a hand in the jury’s deliberations” at the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde. But rather than condemning Wilde’s unjust imprisonment...
...jab is the most important punch to learn in boxing--not because it delivers a knockout but for the damage it does in a long bout. The Nevada Senator has also called the President a liar, a loser and "King George." But with the slimmest possible majority (51 to 49) in a chamber where he needs at least nine Republicans to get anything difficult done--60 votes being what it takes to get past a filibuster and 67 to override a veto--the real test of Reid's leadership will be more about finesse. Republicans say they believe Reid when...
Performers drew some of their material from goings-on in the College community itself—notably The Game, which, in a jab at the alleged irrelevancy of Ivy League football, was likened to selecting the Playboy playmate of the year via a philosophy exam...
...just like a horse race—people are just tossed away,” Guest explains, focusing on the particularly brutal contest to predict Oscar winners.But the writers say they’re not bitter, and that “Consideration” is not a jab at the machine that snubbed them. “Comedies don’t get nominated for Oscars,” says Guest. “It doesn’t happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it’s not what we’re thinking...
...thrust AK-47s into his ribs and pushed him into the floor behind the front seat. Climbing in the backseat, the men pinned him down with their feet and beat him in the torso with the butts of their guns. When he tried to speak, he got a sharp jab in the ribs. His captors emptied his pockets and took his cheap wristwatch and his belt and shoes. As the car sped away, one man put a hood over Waddah's head and, using a plastic tie, bound his wrists behind his back. All that happened in a few moments...