Word: contemptable
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...chance to remain the leader of the reformists in October when he backed away from a 500-Day Plan for radical economic reform that had been worked out with Russian republic leader Boris Yeltsin, his chief domestic rival. When Gorbachev substituted a watered-down plan, Yeltsin rejected it with contempt. Though Gorbachev talked the Supreme Soviet into giving him the power to rule virtually by decree, the republics declared many of his decrees null and void, leading to what both sides rightly called an intolerable "war of laws...
...afire, doused with acid and, in a particularly horrific attack in New York City last Halloween, slashed with a meat cleaver. Finally came resignation. After years of running hurdles over bodies in train stations, of being hustled by panhandlers on the street, many urban dwellers moved past pity to contempt, and are no longer scalded by the suffering they...
...Germany. Last week Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven (Doubleday; $21.95) hit U.S. bookstores amid a squall of controversy. In a nutshell, the author contends that Catholicism "strives to impose its own moral dictatorship without regard to the welfare of married people, a dictatorship based on pleasure-hating, celibate contempt for marriage and a maniacal cult of virginity...
Over the course of last week's hearing, Bulger labeled Dershowitz "crafty," "vindictive," "a true, true conniver," "beneath contempt," and "a compulsive liar...
...manner of Rostand's 19th ; century kind of theater, which was melodramatic in construction and spectacular in style, and actually improved on its substance, since film could realistically show splendors that the stage could only suggest. This Cyrano, abustle with action, aflame with rhetoric and spiced with humorous contempt for pompous and hypocritical swells, reminds us of a lost movie genre that, paradoxically, the original Cyrano helped inspire...