2023年5月5日 星期五

petty, smallness. hardscrabble, lambast, boozy irrepressibility

At a Hardscrabble Farm in Pennsylvania, a Kentucky Derby Legend Lives On

No horse has touched Secretariat’s 1973 record. Inside a stall 400 miles away from the track, his forgotten daughter is the closest thing to it.


 

The enmity between the two men was long-standing, but Trump’s reaction to John McCain’s death demonstrated that there is no limit to the President’s smallness.

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Donald Trump’s Response to John McCain’s Death Reminds Us Just How Petty He Is
In China's Coal Capital, Xi Jinping's Dream Remains Elusive

By CHRIS BUCKLEY

Mr. Xi has promised a new "China dream" of prosperity. But in the nation's hinterlands, locals say there's a stark disconnect between the bright promises and their hardscrabble reality.



Yet in each of Goody's incarnations and in her hardscrabble past as the daughter of a drug-addicted, mixed-race petty criminal and a needy mother (a lesbian who lost the use of her arm in a motorbike crash — and no, that's not made up), Goody has been both icon and exponent of a wide strand of Englishness. Inadequately educated, a single parent to two boys, spilling out of nightclubs and ill-fitting dresses, she gave a human face to all those hand-wringing reports detailing Britain's stubborn social inequality and boozy irrepressibility. (See pictures of people drinking on the London Underground.)


Andrew Wyeth, one of the most popular and also most lambasted artists in the history of American art, a reclusive linchpin in a colorful family dynasty of artists whose precise realist views of hardscrabble rural life became icons of national culture and sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art, died Friday at his home in Chadds Ford, Pa. He was 91.

hardscrabble

adj.
Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal: the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.




lambastelambast
Verb [T]
to criticize someone or something severely:
His first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.

n.
Barren or marginal farmland.
boozy

a.A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.

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