Word: disgust
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...form of the new novel is the author's standby, the diary of a bemused old man who has survived civilization's downfall. Perhaps because of this resemblance to his other books, or simply because the freight of anger and disgust is so heavy it upsets the novel's balance, the element of Hocus Pocus that is storytelling seems perfunctory. Eugene Debs Hartke is the diarist, a gung-ho U.S. Army officer during the Vietnam War; then a professor of science at Tarkington, a college for dyslectics in New York State; then briefly the warden of a prison for blacks...
...commonly acknowledged truth that horror films are not well made. Usually they feature screams for dialogue, vapid female victims for characters, ketchup and water for blood. Directors replace psychological complexity with gore, and the paying audience experiences more disgust than fear...
...frying an egg to know what crack does to the mind. They see it all the time on the streets and in their homes. "It makes people go out of their heads," says Edgar, 15. "My friends would stop me if I ever tried it." His mouth pursed with disgust, J.J., 15, says, "It makes people skinny and ugly." In South Central the only thing worse than a "basehead" is a "strawberry," a woman addict who trades sex for crack. J.J.'s mother is a basehead, and probably also a strawberry, but he won't discuss her. He'll fight...
Underscoring his point, tens of thousands of citizens took part in marches all across France last week to register their disgust with bigotry. In the Paris protest, which drew some 80,000 people, members of all religions and political parties -- except Le Pen's -- rallied together for the first time in recent memory. Even President Francois Mitterrand was there, marking the first time since Paris' liberation in 1945 that a French head of state has taken to the streets to demonstrate...
...closer inspection, it may even be a misguided dream. Still, the threat of a limit on congressional service could be just the weapon necessary to generate real campaign reform and maybe even force the enactment of public financing of ) congressional elections. Nothing else has done the trick. Scandal, disgust and decreasing voter participation -- all predicted to energize change -- have failed. It may be that nothing can, or ever could, concentrate a Congressman's mind more than the prospect of losing his job forever...