There's at least one nasty kid, who drops a nasty note in Petra's lap.
But at least the nasty subject of dementia in the N.F.L. is being discussed.
Like each of his plays, it oscillates between black comedy and psychological thriller, and is doubtless guaranteed to contain at least one nasty twist.
"We know we're going to get at least some nasty headlines about rancor in D.C. over the budget and debt ceiling," he warned.
All the talk of blood in the diaries at first makes Masters suspect a dreadful crime, slashed wrists or at least a nasty fall through panes of glass.
Like them, "Wrecks" presents an ostensibly straight-and-narrow soul — in this case, a newly bereaved widower reflecting on his long and happy marriage — whose inner self has at least one nasty twist that emerges in measured installments.
But as more and more New Yorkers are venturing back down into the subway, they are still being greeted by at least one nasty acquaintance from the old days, one that was never really rousted: the Screech.
It's here, for me at least, that the "nasty" element comes into play and that Labour holds its trump card.
I don't know whether such a test was done 10 or 20 years ago, and whether the outcome would be at all different, but from the 45,000 responses, it seems that a clear majority now believes that science and technology can save us from a natural catastrophe — at least, from a nasty encounter with an asteroid.
Will it, too, crash or at least take a nasty spill?
