Word: disgust
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...Republican?" Jon asked as he backed away from me. Clouds of disbelief now hung in our mutual air space. It is amazing what one little admission can do to a conversation that had been so affable. Jon's apparent disgust didn't phase me, though, because I've become accustomed to negative reactions. In an attempt to salvage this conversation during my first week, I assured Jon that he need not fear me, in spite of my being a Republican. "I don't bite," I informed him. From the look on his face, I couldn't tell whether...
When Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan recently canceled a long-planned donors' dinner, he had the right idea: collecting private money at the apogee of public disgust over the practice is perverse. The White House sees no such disconnect. If, in fact, the sign of a first-rate intellect is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind and still function, then President Clinton is as smart as he wants to be, which unfortunately is not smart enough to know better. For him, fund raising is a no-brainer...
Then later, the same man, with real trouble now, not the borrowed kind, makes a jail visit. His junkie brother, guilty of a senseless killing, has managed to kill himself by driving a hypodermic needle into his heart. Rage, love, disgust, self-loathing--there are the beginnings here of a dozen strong novels to come, bound by racial memory of the slave ship: "At night I hear their voices, huddled close to each other. The memories beat louder and louder against my skull. Above it all, I hear the wailing, see the water...
...Your bigoted and hateful words against transgendered persons disgust me," the letter states. "If you think you've heard nasty things over e-mail, you ain't seen nothing...
Clearly there is a lack of enthusiasm and support from our band. I remember leaving the Fleet Center with my father and my friend, all three of us shaking our heads in disgust and embarrasment, complaining about the obnnvious lack of passion, and even interest, exhibited by the band members. Perhaps next time the much coveted first section seats at the Beanpot which are given to the band could be used more effectively if granted to some exuberant and animated fans. --Thomas Livelli...