Word: disgustedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What Rafelson ends up with, then, is a period piece, haunting in its intensity, but ultimately, distant and emotionless. We end up watching it like clinicians. Maybe disgust and rage really are apt subjects for nostalgia--and a lot would probably say that it's a good thing. But maybe that's what they really meant by the Big Sleep...
...edge. Not only would he have to sing onstage for the first time, he had to master the art of tightrope walking. "It took six weeks and a lot of intimidation," he admits. "I finally made it after a friend kept calling me chicken and walking away in disgust." Reach's schedule for the rest of this year is a balancing act in itself: twelve months of touring in seven cities, marriage in May to Landscaper Jill Donohue and a traumatic birthday two days after that. Says he: "I don't know which scares me more -walking...
While the nation reacted to the shooting with shock, disgust and much philosophizing. Reagan ran the country from his hospital bed. Vice President Bush and Cabinet members resumed their normal duties, and federal investigators scoured the land looking for tidbits about the alleged assailant. John Warnock Hinckley, a 25-year-old drifter from Evergreen, Colo. (see story, left...
...experts contend that talk is useless; Patsy Klaus, a researcher at the Justice Department's National Institute of Justice, believes "a sudden violent scream" is better. Tears, however, are likely to heighten a rapist's sadistic impulses. One possible deterrent is for the victim to try to disgust the attacker by putting a finger down her throat to induce vomiting, or by urinating or defecating. Finally, however, a woman may have no choice. Says Klaus: "If I saw it was hopeless, I'd submit rather than be brutally injured...
Mindful of the spreading Islamic disgust at the sort of corruption that helped topple the Shah of Iran two years ago, the Saudi regime has recently begun a well-publicized clean-up drive. The campaign, though, is largely cosmetic; payoffs continue unchecked. One method is fifty-fifty partnership arrangements between foreign companies and Saudi locals. Complains a Dutch industrialist: "It's all very well arranged, with profit-sharing arrangements set up for this purpose. But it is still bribery...