Word: contempts
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Like the limerick, the pun may well be a folk-art form that defies condescension, scorn and contempt, and possess es the lust for survival of an amoeba. There will always be some, like that formidable adamant, Vladimir Nabokov, who believe that the pun is mightier than the word, that people who cannot play with words cannot properly work with them. "A man who could call a spade a spade," Oscar Wilde remarked, "should be compelled...
...cannot dissipate. The girl, Anada, remains almost totally silent in Yanos' presence. She neither denies nor confirms the flirtation that his jealousy sees in all her movements near other men. When he discovers her alone, bathing nude, her actions stay neutral: she does not speak; her eyes reveal neither contempt nor attraction; she leaves the water and walks past him. Yanos is suspended in time, his sexual longing keeping him from turning away, his morality from advancing towards her. He cannot speak, for Anada has offered him no frame of reference, and his own conflicting feelings negate each other...
...judge says I have to stand trial alone tomorrow. I'll just refuse and face contempt-of-court charges," he added...
...Alex's elaborate posturing, in his self-willed, self-conscious contempt for the weak, the ordinary and the feminine, in the exquisite tastelessness of that first brutal hour, the sensibility of A Clockwork Orange is pure Rolling Stones. Pop vulgarity in all its ambiguity. At one point, Alex, in the midst of rape and assault, breaks into the old Fred Astaire number "Singin in the Rain," and all the contradictions pour through. The scene is morally obscene, but technically masterful. It is appalling, as it should be, and exhilarating, as it should not. The film works in its pose...
...morning hearing had been scheduled for HSWOC to show cause why it was not guilty of contempt of the restraining order. The defendants named were Stephen R. Domesick, who presented the case of the defendants yesterday afternoon, Kathi Allen and Steven Kehoe. The three are attorneys for HSWOC, which was founded in December as the official bargaining agent of waitresses at Cronin's Restaurant...