They were not just arrested while walking peacefully down a quiet street in broad daylight, but they were publicly bad-mouthed by police officials and the Brooklyn district attorney.
Nicolas Sarkozy, as the French head of state and even before he ascended to the role, developed an odd habit of publicly bad-mouthing Madame de Lafayette's 1678 work, "The Princess of Clèves," one of the first modern French novels, which is obligatory reading in schools across the republic.
Puttnam didn't produce the movie; he inherited it from his predecessors when he took over the studio, in 1986, and though he didn't publicly bad-mouth it he also didn't publicly promote it (and, in fact, claimed that he hadn't seen it and had no intention of ever doing so).
In Italy, publicly bad-mouthing the Mafia is the dry-land equivalent of punching a shark in the gills.
FULL COVERAGE: Fall TV preview 2013 After publicly bad-mouthing Lorre and Warner Bros., the studio fired Sheen, a move that prompted Sheen to conduct a series of bizarre TV interviews, giving us as a nation the catch-phrase "Winning!", among others.
Instead, they're reportedly gravitating toward a compromise approach: moving toxic waste from private banks' balance sheets to a publicly owned "bad bank" or "aggregator bank" that would resemble the Resolution Trust Corporation, but without seizing the banks first.
Another option — which recently received the reluctant endorsements of even Alan Greenspan, James Baker, and Lindsey Graham — is temporary nationalization: the government takes over the most troubled banks, splits off their toxic assets, puts those assets in a publicly owned "bad bank," and sells off the healthy parts of the businesses.
Another option which recently received the reluctant endorsements of even Alan Greenspan, James Baker, and Lindsey Graham is temporary nationalization: the government takes over the most troubled banks, splits off their toxic assets, puts those assets in a publicly owned "bad bank," and sells off the healthy parts of the businesses.
In fact, why doesn't Oprah simply ban anyone who has publicly displayed bad behavior?
The portrait -- which is now a mural in a gentrifying section of Brooklyn that Dirt probably would not recognize were he alive -- alludes to the publicly defiant "bad nigger" tradition that stretches back to black boxer Jack Johnson and exists today in social media-induced displays of black criminal behavior.
Seeking to extend these victories, carwasheros in Chicago and Santa Fe are using a mix of publicly shaming bad-faith employers and appealing to consumers to patronize carwashes that take the "high road".
