Word: monstering
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...result, Wonder has become what the trade calls a "monster," a star who can automatically fill any arena or stadium and whose records, both in the stores and on radio, transcend musical categories in their appeal. He has had 20 hit singles and eleven bestselling albums, and now he is a multimillionaire. A month ago at the Grammy Awards show in Los Angeles, the record industry's equivalent of the annual Oscar presentations, he came close to turning the affair into a one-man show by copping four major awards. The prizes included best pop vocal performance...
...crimes of Lt. Calley. They really border on the insane. It is certainly conceivable, however, that an unstable character might have honestly believed that he or she was carrying out the orders of superiors, or even those of God, after the massive Pentagon propaganda deliberately designed to make a monster of the "opponents." No such extenuating circumstances can, however, be used to excuse those responsible for the criminal foreign policy acts of successive Washington administrations since WWII...
...third grade, pupils' parents are supplied with a 32-page booklet called Your Child Starts School and a 28-page manual with the remarkable title Terminal Behavioral Objectives for Continuous Progression Modules in Early Childhood Education. Says School Board Member James Jennings, who labeled the whole package a "monster": "Seventy percent of the parents will never raise the lid on a cover with a title like that...
Loaded with gear and used for antisubmarine warfare, the monster would not make the American seaborne nuclear deterrent vulnerable overnight. But the strange aircraft would give the Russians a new and ominous means of hunting the U.S. Polaris/Poseidon and Trident submarines as they cruise in the silent depths of the seven seas...
...puppets whose strings lead you to different parts of the author's pysche. John Gardner reveled in all this chaos in his earlier novels. In Grendel, Beowulf is just another ridiculous hero in front of a bunch of snivelling fools when we get the classic epic from the monster's point of view. And in The Sunlight Dialogues, self-parody pops up in thoughts such as "She realized, briefly, that she was merely a character in an endless, meaningless novel, then forgot." Veracity has been one of Gardner's lesser concerns; he has made it clear he has been...