Unfair & Unbalanced.Unfair & Unbalanced Patrick M. Carlisle The Writers' Collective c/o Gulotta Communications Inc. 341 Lexington Street, Newton, MA 02466 1594111111 $16.95 www.amazon.com Unfair & Unbalanced: The Lunatic Magniloquence mag·nil·o·quent adj. Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent. [Back formation from magniloquence, grandiloquence, from Latin magniloquentia : magnus, great of Henry E. Panky by Patrick M. Carlisle is a wry and captivatingly Adv. 1. captivatingly - in a bewitching manner; "she was bewitchingly beautiful" bewitchingly, enchantingly, enthrallingly hysterical look at the baffling baf·fle tr.v. baf·fled, baf·fling, baf·fles 1. To frustrate or check (a person) as by confusing or perplexing; stymie. 2. To impede the force or movement of. n. 1. contradictions of modern life. Holding no hypocricy sacred, chapters such as "O' Foreskin foreskin /fore·skin/ (-skin) prepuce. hooded foreskin absence of the ventral foreskin, usually associated with hypospadias. fore·skin n. , Where Art Thou?" and "The Crisis in Pubic Hair" do not hestiate to push the envelope on human sexuality, while "Letter to Dave Barry", "The Insatiable Meat Cleaver of Bette Davis", and "Letter to Ann Coulter" challenge other public figures in an eye-popping manner. Unfair & Unbalanced spares no effort to be hysterically funny, perhaps at the price of good taste but what is that, really? No fewer than four separate disclaimers lead into the hilarity, and the whetted observations within require it, for they are at least four times as cutting-edge as the leading "fair and balanced "Fair and Balanced" is a trademarked slogan used by American news broadcaster Fox News Channel. The slogan was originally used in conjunction with the phrase "Real Journalism. " commentary. |
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