Word: contemptible
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...Travelgate. His committee had been seeking 3,000 pages of White House documents related to the travel office. The committee managed last month to reel in 1,000 of those pages, which contained the first evidence of the latest escapade. Clinger is threatening to hold the White House in contempt if it does not release the next 2,000 pages. The Clintons may be wondering whether another Livingstone is lurking among those dusty documents. Or they may already know...
...only taken the LADY CHABLIS two years to move from the suburbs of contempt to the metropolis of fame. John Berendt anointed her America's second most famous drag queen (after RuPaul) when he wrote of her in his best-selling blockbuster Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, soon to be a movie directed by Clint Eastwood. Several TV appearances and lots of press later, the belle of Savannah, Georgia, is doing what all divas of a certain age do: releasing memoirs. Hiding My Candy doesn't just relate Chablis' life, but also offers recipes, a lexicon...
...perverse integrity in his depressive's gaze, something weirdly compelling in his refusal to ingratiate himself with his audience. You keep waiting for him to crack a smile, offer a consoling gesture, express some softening sentiment. He does not. And if there is much that is withering in his contempt, there is also something bracing in the loony tunelessness of this hymn to human dispirit...
...period thriller, the setting drives the plot and makes the crime--in this case, the disappearance and presumed murder of a young and idealistic clergyman--seem inevitable. As Smith tells it, the town of Wigan is a place of impacted resentments on the part of the miners and supercilious contempt on the part of the clan that owns the mine workings, ruled by a righteous and merciless cleric, Bishop Hannay. Into this nexus of bitterness and coal dust comes Jonathan Blair, a penniless, malarial and more than slightly gin-sodden African explorer. Blair, who was born in Wigan, would rather...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Chastened by the convictions this week of Jim and Susan McDougal, the White House has decided to give a little ground in another scandal percolating in Washington. Facing a contempt-of-Congress vote against three current and former White House aides, the Administration provided the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee with more than 1,000 pages of documents related to the firing of seven travel-office employees early in 1993. The Administration also provided a list of 2,000 pages it is still withholding, citing executive privilege, a clause most often invoked on matters of national security...