Word: defectiveness
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...this seething volume. According to the author, the Mother Goddam of movies for four decades was something else offscreen. The paranoid figure saw herself as a feminine version of Gulliver. "Never relax," she warned B.D., "or the Lilliputians will climb up your legs and devour your soul." No defect goes uncharted, from the star's alcoholism to violent maledictions from her fourth husband, Actor Gary Merrill: "The only people who can be around you for long without wanting to kill you are faggots...
...something you think you saw or, worse, reassured that things are fine when in fact there's something wrong," says Riley. Many an obstetrician has seen patients who have spent sleepless nights worrying after being told--incorrectly--by a keepsake-ultrasound technician that their baby may have a major defect...
...addition, she said, Harvard is unlike most universities in only granting tenure to full professors, potentially encouraging promising junior faculty to defect to other universities that do have tenured associate professors...
...Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Symonds, who served jail time for corruption but has never been charged with espionage, told Time his missions included obtaining false identities and acting as a "frightener" or standover man who would brutalize agents working deep undercover who had tried to defect to the West. In Australia, the interest was in "people who were working there as illegals (Soviet spies) and who had been set up in a small hotel or business and had done a runner." Symonds also says he specialized in providing background stories for spies. Mention the alleged mole...
...engaged in a debate that takes place throughout the country, where people still discuss whether homosexuality is a choice that might be un-made, whether “gay” is nothing more than a code word for godless promiscuity or whether it might be a natural defect that must be borne but not celebrated by the individual unlucky enough to be afflicted with...