Word: viciousness
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Still, Jerry's outbursts are often funny, particularly his 20-minute monologue about his efforts to kill--and later to befriend--his landlady's vicious dog. O'Keefe gives Jerry violent mood swings that make him both scary and funny, perhaps too funny, since Oleson's Peter tends to look more bemused than horrified...
People ("...Robin Givens...will be the one who puts him down for the count"--June 27) hides behind no euphemisms. Givens is referred to as (in order of appearance) a "vamp", "Downright poisonous", "conniving," and "vicious...
Back then, Eddie Murphy shot to stardom as a jailbird sprung to help Cop Nick Nolte catch a psychopath. This time Schwarzenegger is a Soviet policeman trailing three vicious cocaine smugglers to Chicago, and his partner in crime busting is Jim Belushi, a detective with a good arrest record and a bad attitude. It's glasnost with a gut punch -- Communism and capitalism partnered to crush the evil empire of recreational drugs...
...society to spend millions trying to ban the use of "drugs" while other millions are spent promoting the use of Scotch. Anti-legalizers say, hypocrisy or not, we're stuck with the social costs of alcohol but that doesn't mean we need to add other drugs to the vicious stew...
...themselves: violent crime. Laws to stop the supply do not prevent anyone who really wants cocaine or heroin from getting ( it. But they do permit the sellers to charge sky-high prices as a kind of risk premium. The high prices, in turn, produce enormous profits that irresistibly lure vicious gangs, who are taking over large areas of cities. The gangs employ armies of pushers who spread the very plague the drug laws are supposed to combat. Says Milton Friedman, guru of free-market economists and a Nobel prizewinner: "The harm that is done by drugs is predominantly caused...