Word: contemptible
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...defense argued that the article never mentioned Singapore. The prosecution insisted that ``reasonable readers'' would know exactly what the piece was all about. In the end, a Singapore court last week found a U.S. scholar and executives of the International Herald Tribune guilty of contempt for impugning the integrity of the judiciary. Judge Goh Joon Seng imposed a $6,900 fine on economist Christopher Lingle and smaller levies on the newspaper's publisher, its Asia editor, distributor and local printer...
...court he thought the article referred to China, North Korea and other communist or military regimes. Judge Goh, however, said he had ``no doubt'' that the reference was to Singapore and found the defendants, including Herald Tribune Publisher Richard McClean and a local printer, Singapore Press holdings, guilty of contempt for ``scandalizing the judiciary...
...innocent young Irish girl is seduced, and later finds herself in a family way. Rather than face the anger of her father and brothers and the contempt of her friends and neighbors, she runs away to search for her lover, who departed without leaving a precise forwarding address. This tale, of course, has had many tellings; it's hard to think of an Irish writer who hasn't tackled it. Yet in Felicia's Journey (Viking; 213 pages; $21.95), William Trevor makes his heroine's plight and flight seem entirely original...
...opposition to ROTC is based primarily upon a general feeling of contempt for the military, a contempt that is made all the worse because of its ungrateful character. When the recent push to expand public service by students is considered, the case for curtailing ROTC is further undermined...
...Wear isn't about pricey clothes; Altman has no more interest or expertise in them than he did in country music when he made Nashville. Here he wanted only to find a new arena for his worst impulses. This strategy of derision exhausted itself ages ago. But for Altman, contempt never goes out of fashion...