thumbs down

Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — who has occasionally written articles for The Times — also gave the “bias meter” a thumbs-down.

The media built him up, and as we saw in the Roman colosseum, the thumbs-up can quickly turn to thumbs-down.

The council majority held fast: thumbs-down on the pier.

I remain in the thumbs-down camp concerning the prequels, by the way; instead of rehashing the same quibbles, I’ll simply direct you to Charles Taylor’s 1999 review for Salon.

One of the most significant tweaks to Memegen will be the removal of a virtual thumbs-down.