Word: disgustedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days ago I was walking down Mt. Auburn Street when I noticed a woman staring at her hands with a mixed expression of awe and disgust. I was perplexed. Then I noticed she was coming from an ATM. She was looking at the new $20 bill...
There is little for the American people to like in the public performances they see. The polls professing satisfaction may mask an alienation, just below the surface, and a generalized disgust at everyone: the screaming media, the nitwit Congress, the ignoble President. Nero gave the people circuses. Clinton is the circus...
Forget President Clinton, forget Ken Starr and forget Monica Lewinsky. Hillary Clinton is the prime source of my shame, embarrassment and disgust these days. In continuing to "stand by her man," the First Lady is setting no kind of moral example for Americans. Certainly Hillary needs to forgive her husband. She also needs to take no more of this kind of behavior. ROSALIE Y. DWYER Aurora...
...film's steady injection of 1958's versionof deviant sex, drug use and rock and roll furtherprovokes the dirty feelings of disgust. Thesethreats to the blissful uniformity of Americanpost-war culture, being perhaps more immediate tothe general audience, elicit the gut response thatthen highlights the more latent tension presentedby the fear of foreign infiltration. Welles, asboth actor and director, effectively uses thenational border to comment on the relationship ofindividual security to larger systems. As much aswe, especially as an American audience, would liketo believe in our absolute ability to choose weare often structured by our identification withsome cause or other...
...devastation--the traumatic disgust--may be too extensive to be repaired. On the other hand, you might listen in the coming days and weeks for the sound of a loud backfire...