Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't watch the presidential debate on Sunday night. I felt bad about it at first--as though I wasn't interested enough in the issues, as though I didn't care enough about national events...
...Committee for Quality of Life has already begun airing television and radio advertisements against the referendum question, and union workers around Cambridge have plastered their cars and trucks with blue-and-white bumper stickers reading "Question 2--Bad...
...increasingly unstable partner whom Virginia Woolf once described as a "bag of ferrets" around Eliot's neck. To read The Waste Land's overwhelming catalog of cultural decay is also to eavesdrop on a typical evening with Mr. and Mrs. Eliot. The wife is overheard: "My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me./ Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak...
Each man films the thing he loathes. That seems the rule, anyway, for directors who investigate the darker locales in cinema's emotional landscape. Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Federico Fellini found artistry in images that terrified or disgusted them. Their bad dreams became their best movies...
...tragedy came amid a week of turmoil -- and a few gestures of amity -- in strife-prone southern Africa, a region of guerrilla conflicts and racial hostilities. John Paul had arrived in Lesotho via a circuitous route. Bad weather forced his chartered Air Zimbabwe jet to veer from Maseru and land at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The unscheduled stop was a public relations windfall for South Africa, which had been pointedly excluded from the Pope's five-nation tour. While John Paul did not kiss the ground at the airport, as is his custom on first visiting a country...