Word: condemns
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Pynchon's devotion to electronic allusions has been criticized before, and Vineland will no doubt increase the number of protests. It is, admittedly, disquieting to find a major author drawing cultural sustenance from The Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy instead of The Odyssey and the Bible. But to condemn Pynchon for this strategy is to confuse the author with his characters. He is a gifted man with anti-elitist sympathies. Like some fairly big names in innovative fiction, including Flaubert, Joyce and Faulkner, Pynchon writes about people who would not be able to read the books in which they...
Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, who has said he will run for governor next year if the state's budget crisis is not resolved within the next two months, made an unscheduled stop at the State House to condemn the proposed local aid cuts...
Prosecutor (reading the verdict): On the basis of the actions of the members of the Ceausescu family, we condemn the two of you to death...
...signaled its willingness to adapt to the U.S. action -- presuming it was successful. At home both parties in Congress generally applauded the effort to get rid of the egregious Noriega. "At last," said Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Latin American nations issued formal condemnations of the intervention, but one did not have to read very far between the lines to detect a sigh of relief that the brutal Panamanian dictator had got his comeuppance. The 32-member Organization of American States "regretted," but did not quite condemn, the invasion. In recent months many Latin...