Word: spoiledness
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Akira demands a certain tolerance for the more hyperbolic aspects of pulp storytelling, but it always repays, never tries your patience. The movie is a visual dazzler. Tokyo is imagined down to the last noodle shop and intersection, a place of deep night and lurid neon that looks like Blade...
So long as our species behaves like a spoiled only child, allowing parochial economic, political and leisure appetites to define the landscape, nature will deny us the thing we crave most -- a sense of belonging. To extend Groucho Marx's line, we would not join any club that would have...
$ There is no end to our effrontery. In Arizona a mutant Chinese grass carp, the sterile triploid amur, has been released into the ponds and water hazards of golf courses to keep the water free of entangling weeds lest golf balls be lost or the scenery spoiled. An African fish...
There, glowering from its last page banishment, sat, like a spoiled child, an article that portended to prescribe a remedy for the "ills" now afflicting the game of major league baseball ("Owners: It's Time for Them To Go" December 3). In this article, the same forces which ruined the...
Now, well, nothing has changed. For the Crimson, thoughts of last year's match are fond memories. A 3-1 Harvard victory spoiled Dartmouth's quest for a second Ivy title, and denied Dartmouth another trip to the NCAA tourney.