Word: contemptable
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Klein has filed kidnap charges with the Fort Lauderdale police, and last week a federal judge ordered a hearing on contempt charges against Macias-Rosales...
...match than the average sports-loving American, and last week's beginning of the World Cricket Series was a national ritual for most Americans. Louisiana, in turn, has retained that raffish, somewhat off-center charm we associate with all things French: good food, good conversation and a fine contempt for conventional morals. It has also retained some unfortunate reminders of its frontier heritage. Unlike America, where handguns are outlawed, Louisiana allows every ten-year-old a six-shooter. No one is safe on its streets...
...observer watched him with a kind of tender contempt. How could he-and yet why not? Nixon had been disgraced, the other two had been turned down by the electorate; all, for those few hours, were sipping again at the cup of power...
...lawyer hired by the state to monitor compliance, claimed in a blistering 482-page report last May that more than half of the changes had not been made. State prison officials then fired him. They took him back only after the lawyer for the convicts threatened to seek a contempt of court judgment against them...
This literacy-a sense of the thickness of art's layer over an insufficiently interpreted world, a knowledge of what alternative images it contains-is part of Kitaj's essential subject matter. It explains his passion for homage, his contempt for theories of progress in art and his dislike of spontaneity. It would be hard to find anyone intelligent today who believes art still moves from lower states to higher, but ten years ago, Kitaj was much scorned in some circles for not believing it and saying he did not. "In the terms of my own life...