Word: viciousness
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...background of the recent changes there is a vicious metaphor at work according to which a university is like a business: this makes the administration, the management, the faculty, the employees, and the students the customers. The metaphor elevates the administration from their rightful place as servants and protectors of the faculty to the position of their judges and overseers...
Werner Erhard? Rand McNally? Julia Child? Merle Haggard? Sid Vicious...
...soon becomes clear that it is not going to be easy. Her sloppy, vicious cab-driving mother (Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood) turns up to excoriate her. A prison guard (Bob Burrus) has quit his job and accompanied Arlene to her Louisville flat, with the lecherous expectation of shacking up with her. He is an odd mixture of paternal solicitude and cruel menace. Her ex-lover and pimp (Leo Burmester) shows up. A smarmy swaggerer in an orange suit, he proposes to take her off to the rich mean streets of New York...
Harvard's current stance on the J.P. Stevens issue is morally irresponsible and dangerous to our school's principles for two reasons: (1) Money paid to Stevens is being used to finance the company's vicious anti-union campaign, while no money is being sent to the Stevens workers or the union. This represents real and active support for Stevens illegality. You argue in your letter that "we do not possess sufficient leverage to move large corporations." A similar excuse is used to downgrade the importance of voting: "Who cares? My vote won't change the results." On that basis...
There are some bright nuggets here and there. William Daniels has a hilarious deadpan scene where, as G. Gordon Liddy, he outlines his outrageous schemes to trap '72 Democratic Convention delegates with call girls. As the President, Rip Torn does a gleefully vicious Nixon impersonation, whether he is re-enacting private Oval Office conversations (with bleeps in place of expletives) or declaring to the world that he is "not a crook...