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The bald, curdle-faced pinky-sucker is still locked in excruciating combat with his teen-aged son, Scott Evil (Seth Green), who never misses a chance to jeer at his father's grandiosity, and who in turn is dismissed as "quasievil ...
After his excruciating performance in the 1996 Republican presidential campaign, Lamar Alexander should have had the grace to disappear quietly into the Tennessee backwoods.
And Springer is riveting, excruciating television.
A NYT editorial says Clinton is "in the pincers of an excruciating legal squeeze", urges him to come clean with the American people, and predicts that Congress won't impeach him even if he admits to having sex with Lewinsky and lying afterwards.
One wonders whether the dark and shadowy world of his photographs might have had some association in his mind with the ambivalence he felt toward the Jews he posed in such excruciating positions.