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But his attempts to put away a shady doctor (George Macready) lead him to discover a corrosively painful truth about his beloved wife, Mary (Eleanor Parker).

John Farr: Kirk Douglas Turns 95! John Farr 2011

His book, Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, is a frontal attack on cynicism and the crisis of apathy which is corrosively distorting American government into an agent of and for the powerful few.

Jonathan Lewis: New Citizen Center Powers Up Jonathan Lewis 2011

His book, Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, is a frontal attack on cynicism and the crisis of apathy which is corrosively distorting American government into an agent of and for the powerful few.

Jonathan Lewis: New Citizen Center Powers Up Jonathan Lewis 2011

Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny exposé of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.

My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary 2010

His poetry corrosively and obsessively studied itself and was utterly unconcerned with the specificity of things and with relationships to people.

Poetry 2010

Bill Hicks is a name that should also be included in that list: a comic who never reached a mass audience in the U.S. but whose corrosively funny take on the politics of me-first and the dumbing-down of consumer culture places him squarely in the Bruce school of truth-tellers.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: American: The Bill Hicks Story Marshall Fine 2011

Inevitable disappointments, large or small, become unbearable under such circumstances, corrosively souring even the joys of the 'good life'.

Michael Henry Adams: Thomas Hoving, Wendy Burden and the End of Elite Privelige? 2010

Inevitable disappointments, large or small, become unbearable under such circumstances, corrosively souring even the joys of the 'good life'.

Thomas Hoving, Wendy Burden and the End of Elite Privelige? 2010

I am beginning to wonder if any politician appreciates quite how much Labour's laws and its corrosively pessimistic view of society have permeated national life or, for that matter, the way that a culture of fear, encouraged by government and the popular press, leads to ludicrous overreaction on the ground.

So, how do the parties match up on protecting our freedom? 2010

The Democrats are still reeling from a spate of retirements, most corrosively Evan Bayh's departure from the Senate, and scandals that have forced the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel, to step aside in addition to Massa.

Has Obama Hit Bottom? 2010