Word: viciousness
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...facts" they report in stories; the seven major national media organizations--The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek and the three major television networks--should consciously seek an internal balance of viewpoint among themselves. Most important, Price says, we must search for "some way to break the vicious circle of distrust between government officials and the media...
...Senate's arms-control subcommittee, Jackson has heard testimony on SALT II from a parade of high-level witnesses, and he has not liked what he has heard. In one subcommittee session, Jackson treated Vance in a way that one shaken Administration insider termed "angry and almost vicious." The clear implication of Jackson's interrogation: that the U.S. has caved in to the Soviets. He and other SALT critics also charge the Administration with self-serving leaks to the press, while defenders of the prospective treaty accuse Jackson of leaks intended to discredit the negotiations...
...controllers, who wear red scarves as signs of power, have proved to be even more vicious than the old ones. Thus instead of moderating as the regime matures and becomes more economically secure, Cambodia is retrogressing. Says Tap Ereth, a former soldier who returned to his village to farm after the fall of the non-Communist government in 1975: "From 6 in the morning until the moon began to rise, the controllers yelled at us to grow more rice. We did grow more, but it was always taken away...
...words, however, belie the tradition of rock and roll ballads to lost loves. Yes, there's sadness there for what used to be--but the norm in classic rock lyrics is the graceful acquiescence, and Costello will have none of it. His sorrow takes the form of a quietly vicious attack on the girl; the message is that he's on to her games and won't get burned again. The effect is really scary--the unexpected combination of a pretty melody and vindictive lyrics makes the song especially memorable...
...problem was that he kept looking behind their transgressions, which were frequently ugly, vicious, mindless, to the poverty and brutality of their lives, their social handicaps, the system that doomed them from birth because they were black or foreign or the spawn of poor white families...So he had quit a step ahead of being fired for having the worst prosecutory track record in the state and opened his own office to defend the very people he had formerly prosecuted...