On his Saturday evening talk show, and everywhere else, he said what he thought abrasively, defiantly, sometimes obscenely.
So Serbia's fragile democracy, re-established only three years ago after the fall of a tyrant, Slobodan Milosevic, has been shaken to the core by the assassination of the country's abrasively reform-minded prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, gunned down outside the main government building in Belgrade, the capital, on March 12th.
His music is deceptively straightforward, often concealing within a conventional form what would have once been considered as abrasively modern.In this section France's autumn blues Does China awake?
In Ukraine, it forced the sacking last year of an abrasively pro-western foreign minister, and Mr Putin vigorously defended President Kuchma during the wave of protests over the journalist's death.Nor, whatever the uneven results of western aid in the region, is it likely that closer ties with Russia will make the affected countries any more prosperous.
Logical explanations, though, are less interesting than the overall mood of menace that Wheatley instils in this ordinary world of suburban discontent – not least, through Jim Williams's abrasively oppressive score.
However, as a general rule, the louder, cruder and more abrasively McCarthy behaves the funnier she becomes.
These analogies give you some idea of the ruffled feathers in the liberal dovecot when David Mamet – author of such abrasively anti-capitalist stage classics as American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross – published an article entitled "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'".
Their truce is brokered by the Globe's editor Cameron Lynne Helen Mirrenn), who approaches the congressman scandal in her abrasively straight-talking way: "So was he knobbing her or not?" she asks Cal.
Shot on a modest budget of $60,000, that film was an abrasively chiaroscuro black-and-white drama about a maths genius pushing his intellect to the limit and suffering nightmare delusions as a result.
In 2000, Arcangel and Davis co-founded Beige Programming Ensemble, and they soon released "The 8-Bit Construction Set," a record of abrasively bright music that they made with two friends using old Atari and Commodore computer games as instruments.
He's someone who challenges the Americans on their own terms, but not abrasively".
