Word: contemptable
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...feel of a place and the conversation of the local residents, building the big picture through small details. He acknowledges Fossey's courage in trying to protect an endangered band of mountain gorillas; he also discovers that her love for the great apes was matched by her contempt for the Rwandan people. In the Central African Republic he encounters people who wonder why the West makes such a fuss about eating human flesh. Visiting his first AIDS clinic, he is greeted by a doctor visibly wasting away with the disease he is supposed to treat...
...electorate. To suggest that the voters are wrong, let alone to characterize their error in more melodramatic terms, opens you up to charges of elitism. The contention that people have been misled or manipulated, wrote one smug supporter of the probable winner shortly before the election, "reveals an extraordinary contempt for the political intelligence of the public...
...this end he enlists his best friend Aldo (John Turturro) to tame the shrew with roses and sweet talk. Cyrano did better. Janice stands on a moonlit balcony, takes a look at the flowers, snorts "What faw?" and tosses them to the ground. Her contempt stokes Aldo's ardor and Huey's too. As their older friend May (Helen Hanft) notes wistfully about the triumph of love over logic, "I'll never again have the courage to be that stupid...
Marcos did not help his case by refusing to respond to grand jury subpoenas in recent months. That led a federal appeals court last week to uphold a contempt ruling against him and his wife for failing to provide fingerprints and other requested items. Even so, the grand jury acted only after a proposed deal between the Justice Department and Marcos unraveled late Thursday. The agreement called for Marcos to forfeit real estate, art and jewelry in exchange for having the Justice Department drop plans for the indictment. In Honolulu, however, a Marcos attorney said the Marcoses were given only...
While Sand gave the four holdouts until Aug. 10 to reverse their negative votes or face jail terms, Yonkers appealed the contempt finding to higher courts. Invited by the judge to remove the rebellious officials, New York Governor Mario Cuomo instead deferred to the state's Emergency Financial Control Board, an agency that oversees Yonkers' shaky finances. Cuomo further muddied the waters by observing that Yonkers officials might be able to persuade Judge Sand to modify his ruling. Grandstanding politicians in the Yonkers stalemate could find a guiding example of courageous leadership in Boston. Neighborhood resistance to the integration...