But I'll settle for your ripping up that poison-pen letter that you, and many of us, would be composing in our heads.
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And today's phrase of the day is poison-pen letter: A malicious and usually anonymous statement, like the ones being collected by the 1922 committee.
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In the opening swath of the last century, if a writer was luckless enough to arouse the disapproval of D.H. Lawrence, he could usually expect a poison-pen letter of soul-stomping vitriol.
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The Britpop scene of the 1990s takes it squarely on the chin in the blisteringly bleak "Kill Your Friends," a richly satisfying poison-pen letter to the music industry directed by Owen Harris.
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When the MacArthur Foundation was considering McPherson for the first of its "genius" grants, in 1981, Ellison wrote the foundation a poison-pen letter decrying McPherson's "current restlessness," and blaming his putative failures on "a condition of shock brought on by a long-delayed social mobility suddenly achieved," while recommending others for the honor.
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Mark and Paige realise that he is not as committed to the relationship as she is and they break up. Mark supports Sonya (Eve Morey) when she becomes the victim of a poison pen letter campaign. Sonya's stalker, Erin (Adrienne Pickering), breaks into Sonya's house and knocks Mark unconscious. Both Mark and Sonya try to help Erin.
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Erin admits to sending poison pen letter to Sonya's friends and neighbours, as she blames Sonya for her addiction to drugs and the subsequent loss of her daughter to social services. Erin is charged with assault, stalking and trespass. Toadie visits Erin at the police station and warns her to stay away from his family. A few days later, Sonya confronts Erin and then pays her bail.
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Toadie receives a poison pen letter detailing Sonya's addictions. After he and the neighbours receive more letters, Toadie asks Mark Brennan (Scott McGregor) for his help in identifying the sender. It later emerges that Sonya's former best friend Erin Rogers (Adrienne Pickering) sent the letters, as she blames Sonya for introducing her to drugs. Sonya invites Erin to stay and her daughter Cat (Maleeka Gasbarri) visits.
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Barrett's successor Nancy Allan argued that she acted properly, as the WCB board held legal authority over the matter.Martin Cash, "Auditor slams NDP: Ex-minister's response to complaints under fire", Winnipeg Free Press, 18 January 2006, A1. For his part, Fox-Decent rejected Jacobsen's complaint as a "poison pen" letter from a disgruntled employee.Martin Cash, "Former CEO 'still shocked' by rebuff", Winnipeg Free Press, 18 January 2006, A4.
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Isabel Dalhousie is approached by the wife of a trustee of a prestigious Scottish school concerning a poison pen letter that her husband, a trustee of said school, has received, concerning one of the candidates for the post of headmaster. Isabel's nieces, Cat, has a new boyfriend who is, coincidentally, one of the candidates for the aforementioned position. Isabel works in her usual manner to get to the bottom of the mystery.
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At the UMNO General Assembly in 1998, a leading Anwar supporter, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, criticised the government for not doing enough to combat corruption and cronyism. As Mahathir took the reins of Malaysia's economic policy over the coming months, Anwar was increasingly sidelined. On 2 September, he was dismissed as deputy prime minister and finance minister, and promptly expelled from UMNO. No immediate reasons were given for the dismissal, although the media speculated that it related to lurid allegations of sexual misconduct circulated in a "poison pen letter" at the general assembly.
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Her continuing ploys inevitably bring her into conflict with Sara, the captain's equally ambitious wife, and Charlie begins to find fault with Bill at every opportunity. Vicious rumors circulate about Kathy's relationship with Tony. When Bill sees a poison pen letter that Kathy has received, he rushes to work and punches his boss, Charlie, in front of two police witnesses. During the investigation, Tony shifts enough of the blame to Charlie, suggesting he reached for his gun when the visibly angry Bill burst into the room, that he can hush up the whole incident.
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Little (1995). p. 35. Storylines throughout the decade included Elsie's mystery poison-pen letter, the 1962 marriage of Ken and Valerie Tatlock (Anne Reid), the death of Martha Longhurst in 1964, the birth of the Barlow twins in 1965, Elsie Tanner's wedding to Steve Tanner (Paul Maxwell) and a train crashing from the viaduct (both in 1967), Steve Tanner's murder in 1968, and a coach crash in 1969. In spite of rising popularity with viewers, Coronation Street was criticised by some for its outdated portrayal of the urban working class, and its representation of a community that was a nostalgic fantasy.
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Between 1987 and 1999, residents of Manfield, district of North Yorkshire, began receiving poison pen letters. The poison pen letter writer stalked a woman, Joanne Kellett, and sent a letter to her, accusing her of being a prostitute, and threatened to put a bomb down the chimney at the home of Molly Christian, one of his first victims, to whom he sent three anonymous letters. Forster also sent pornography to a 13-year-old girl. Shirley Dodd, a mother of two, had her son, Jeremy, 11, accused of sending the letters, but he was soon ruled out when Forster was caught.
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Meanwhile, Baby does her best to convince a photographer to put her on the cover and Burn tries to get Melody to come out of her shell. # Episode 5 (aired 1 October 2006) The contestants are to perform an unplugged concert, but it is overshadowed when Baby gets a poison pen letter. Amir's confidence takes a blow when he has to perform an English song, Nickson argues with Calvin about how he should present himself. Meanwhile, Melody and Burn get even more drawn to one another. # Episode 6 (aired 8 October 2006) It's only a week until the first Malaysian Star showdown, but the contestants have more than just elimination on their minds.
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The attraction strengthens into love but Carl's family disapprove and send him away after Paul Marsden (Matthew Booth) dies but he later returns and they get together. Chas' relationship with Carl was never stable, and the couple go through numerous break-ups and reconciliations. Despite Chloe Atkinson's (Amy Nuttall) poison pen letter scheme, Tom and Rosemary's blackmail, Carl's guilt over murdering his father and marriage to Chas's former friend, Lexi Nicholls (Sally Oliver), the relationship survives but finally deteriorates upon Chas discovering Carl was sleeping with Eve Jenson (Suzanne Shaw). Heartbroken, she follows her second cousin Charity's (Emma Atkins) advice to persuade him to marry her and falsely claims to be pregnant.
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" Ben Brantley of The New York Times stated that while on paper Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? "reads as a minor work from a major playwright, little more than a political poison-pen letter [...] with Ms. Churchill, one of the most inventive and incisive dramatists of her generation, even rabid venting takes the form of a brave, canny exploration of theatrical language that comes to startling life on the stage." Jeremy McCarter of New York magazine derided the playwright's attack on the United States as "cartoonish", and found the work minor in comparison to other Churchill plays. The Telegraph's Charles Spencer said in 2012 that the play is "as glib and nasty a piece of anti-American agitprop as I have ever seen.
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After being elected as a representative of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly in the by-election on 29 May 1997, he was appointed as the Menteri Besar of Selangor from 6 June 1997 to 9 August 2000. There was controversy over the RM5 million expenditure to renovate the official residence of the Menteri Besar at Bukit Megawati, Shah Alam for Abu Hassan during his tenure. In 2000, a poison pen letter started circulating about an alleged sex scandal and ill-concealed relationship between Abu Hassan with his wife's sister. Abu Hassan had denied any wrongdoing, claiming his sister-in- law actually had married his good friend, a Chinese new Muslim convert (Muallaf) who coincidentally shared his Islamic name; Abu Hassan Tan Abdullah.
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Gold described it as a "dangerous polemic", accusing Thompson of writing a "poison pen letter" to Alcoholics Anonymous. The Huffington Post's Rupert Wolfe-Murray also criticised Thompson's rejection of the disease model of addiction, suggesting he was giving alcoholism the banality of everyday obsessions and asking if this was a form of denial. Thompson responded to Gold, clarifying his view that addiction is a matter of choice, and also responded to Wolfe-Murray on his blog, writing that the disease model of addiction should not be an "emotional crutch". In The Washington Post, James Norton wrote that Thompson speaks in a deceptively casual voice at first, but ultimately brings the reader through a "whirlwind of anecdotes, interviews and studies", offering an argument with "real force and substance" and engaging reading material.
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