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But not wallowing in a moral swamp, like those cringing thieves at Time magazine.
Less amusing, but more typical, is an 1983 essay by James Atlas in The Atlantic Monthly , in which he offers up the spectacle of himself cringing at the feet of the New York intellectuals who helped him with his biography of poet Delmore Schwartz--and equally nasty portraits of the intellectuals themselves.
Which is what Journal news employees are instructed to say whenever the editorial page causes them cringing embarrassment.
The audience, meanwhile, ends up cringing and squirming on behalf of his dates, some of whom are appalled to the point of violence and litigation by the revelation of a hidden camera.
Antonio Banderas' directorial debut--which stars his wife, Melanie Griffith--leaves critics cringing.