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...smell which is powerful enough to wake a sleeping Jadine and to arouse her sexually, but horrible enough to mix with her fantasies a sense of shame comparable to that of a bitch in heat, taken by a pack of dogs turn by turn and then beaten in disgust by townspeople...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Ghosts in Black | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

Says Magnuson: "It has happened enough times now so that though there is always a shock, you know you've been through it before. What you feel more than anything is sadness and disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 13, 1981 | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...best it can, as fast as it can - and to tell it. A sense of national unity, in sadness and anxiety. A sense of outrage at violence. If the U.S. really were as fundamentally violent as it is made out, there would never be such uniform despair and disgust when violence occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sense of Where We Are | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Knock, Knock | 4/11/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 6, 1981 | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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