Word: contempts
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...undertake a great role by a great dramatist is like watching a god serve a god. One also watches how an incomparable actor shifts his centers of strength. This time, Olivier's eyes seem dominant-wide, melancholy pools of bruised wisdom, anvils sparked with anger, slits of caustic contempt...
Even at the end, when Irving pleads guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud, forgery and perjury (by his own account, he is also guilty of theft, plagiarism and libel), he still seems to believe that he hasn't done anything wrong: "I had demonstrated a cool contempt for the underpinnings of American society...
Popkin is appealing a contempt of court citation for refusing to answer certain questions before a Boston Federal Grand Jury investigating the Pentagon Papers case...
...Rinieri was arrested in New York with a suspected narcotics payoff of $247,000 in cash. In the Corsican tradition, he refused to give his real name or explain what he was doing with the money. His silence caused him to be sent to jail for six months for contempt of court. At the end of his term, the U.S. deported him but, since it could prove no link between the $247,000 and dope trafficking, the government was forced to give him the money back-with interest...
...condominiums in an amphitheater-shaped apartment tower that curves around a nude-swimming pool. So far this year, some 25,000 nudists, about half of them foreigners, have visited the complex for a few carefree days of freedom from the world of those whom they refer to with mild contempt as "les textiles...