Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day Dr. Obukhov again called me in and said that Andrei was on the brink of death, that his extrasystole was very bad, that he was suffering from grave atherosclerosis in the brain vessels and that he either had Parkinson's disease or symptoms of it. And that I should not worry him. I yelled, saying that as doctors they should understand that a man in that state of health cannot be kept isolated for four months from the only available person dear to him; I also accused them of having brought on his worsened condition by giving...
...work of the 1980s, as complicated as ever but no longer perverse, Gehry has accomplished an extraordinary synthesis of the common and the profound. Now that he allows a measure of classicist calm to seep into his work, he may no longer be written off as an idiosyncratic California bad boy. Gehry must be regarded as one of the two or three most important members of the late-modernist generation -- and maybe the most successful formal innovator...
...auction that was billed as the largest farmland sale in California history. The bank put 3,821 fertile acres in the state's Central Valley on the block as a start at unloading 214,000 acres of land that the bank has unwillingly accumulated by foreclosing on bad agricultural loans...
Students "perceive him [Paul] as a victim," said sophomore Naline Lai. "The methods that Robinson used were really bad," freshman Isobel T. White concurred. "It's really given him [Paul] a bad name at the school...
...this point he lunged for my throat. "Don't you see? These people aren't nice. They're devious. Where else do you find mechanical imitations of human beings masquerading as presidents of the United States? No, perhaps that's a bad example...