To the New Yorker, she is "crowd-pleasing" (always bad), the "poet laureate of Twitter," and "an exemplar of brilliant silliness"; to the New York Times Magazine, she is a "smutty-metaphor queen".
It's no place for a guy like Casablancas, a guy who exists in the proud lineage of streetwise, libertine rock'n'rollers such as Johnny Thunders, the smack-addicted poet laureate of bad luck and broken dreams, and Dee Dee Ramone, who worked as a rent boy on 53rd and 3rd to pay for drugs.
When Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon partnered with Representative Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, to propose Medicare reform, Wyden was promptly denounced by New York Times columnist and Nobel Economics laureate Paul Krugman as a "useful idiot" who did "a bad, bad thing".
She has quoted the work of Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, who has argued inequality is bad for economic growth.
It's too bad that Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy couldn't see that a Nobel laureate belongs at the podium at graduation, and an educator belongs in the principal's office.
Dr. Robert Stoner, the American poet laureate, is older, laconic and in a very bad mood.
If the angle is bad, pull out your chair slightly so that you can address Nobel Laureate face-on.
Campaigning for the Oxford poetry post, second only to poet laureate in its status, has a history of being bad-tempered.
In the 20th century, D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee considered some of Cibber's laureate poems funny enough to be included in their classic "anthology of bad verse", The Stuffed Owl (1930).
END ON A HIGH NOTE Daniel Kahneman, a Princeton psychologist and Nobel laureate, has demonstrated in studies that people tend to judge experiences largely on peak moments, either good or bad, that stood out — regardless of how long the experience lasted (a phenomenon called the "peak-end rule").
