Word: contemptable
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What photographer satisfied the biographical requirements for an artist better than Edward Weston? Like Gauguin, he made a mid-life lunge for the southern latitudes, putting family and studio on hold while he pondered the cactus in Mexico. His "commercial" portrait work he churned out with contempt, all but using one hand to press the shutter and the other to hold his nose. And among his remarkable inventory of lovers were the kind of women who not only danced naked for his camera but brought along their own finger cymbals...
That statement created a stir when the Times Mirror Co. recently sponsored a press forum in Washington. Jack Nelson, the outspoken bureau chief for the Times, said, "I think there is a real contempt for the press within the Reagan Administration, and I think it starts at the top." Nelson feels his colleagues are insufficiently aggressive in covering the Administration, "and I don't think television is aggressive...
...Landis' contempt for rules, however, has had less entertaining results. The deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two child extras on the set of Landis' Twilight Zone--The Movie segment four years ago suggested that, indeed, there are some rules to which even cinematic iconoclasts ought to adhere. Landis has admitted that the two young extras were working in violation of California's child-labor laws, and now he and several of his colleagues are on trial for involuntary manslaughter and criminal negligence in the three deaths...
...Syria's embassy in London, whose trial exposed the Damascus terrorist connection that had been long suspected but never proved. The U.S. supported Britain by withdrawing its ambassador from Syria, and last week Secretary of State George Shultz characterized Syria's role in the foiled bombing episode as beneath contempt. "When a country does that, it isolates itself from the civilized community," he told a Los Angeles audience...
Conservatives claim that the Supreme Court Justices whom they have targeted should be voted out of office for misinterpreting the state constitution. But it is these conservatives--in their willingness to politicize the judiciary and compromise judicial independence--who show contempt for constitutionalism and reveal their willingness to subvert government institutions for the sake of power...