Word: disgustful
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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...
...more ways than one. His description of the animal auction was grimly reminiscent of slave sales in the antebellum South, conducted for much the same reason: "pleasure" and profit. Today more and more concerned people hope that the slavery of animals eventually will be viewed with the same disgust, and condemned with the same moral righteousness, as human chattel...
...beloved onomatopoetics of yesteryear, redolent of childhood's long, rainy Sunday afternoons, cannot help recalling that the comics were the popular art that most radically stylized experience. Sometimes artfully, more often not, they reduced it to its basic components of violence, disgust, fear, heroics and sometimes laughter. From their beginnings, the comics and the movies have lived together symbolically; there is scarcely a major comic-page figure who has not been reincarnated on the screen, or a comic strip that has not been influenced by the way movie directors frame and compose scenes. Yet the transitions from one medium...