Word: disgustful
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...following box) that are sending temperatures plummeting across the nation are, ironically enough, warming the one state that is usually frozen stiff. In Anchorage, Alaska, where the thermometer was up to a comparatively balmy 45° last week, the ice was so soft that hockey players went home in disgust. Meanwhile, snowstorms avoided areas that are normally blanketed with white. Rocky Mountain ski operators complained bitterly about the clear skies. Sun Valley, Idaho, the haven of the wealthy and the sedate, had to use snowmaking machines, and even then managed to keep open only three of its 60 runs...
...stingy, petty-bourgeois tailoring trade of his parents, but in mimicking their gab and strut, he made them sympathetic and worthwhile in spite of himself and of them because he saw where they were authentic beneath their fraudulence. He found the poetry in a whore; for all the disgust, indifference and thoughtless obeisance to some purely sexual nerve communicated by the images, there is something totally absorbing in his spasmodic narrative. You just can't tell what it means to see corruption and what it means to see sublimity any more. Carrying this from the level of human interaction...
...entered the officer training program. He was contacted by CIA recruiters when he joined the army, but his decision to enlist didn't end the agency's interest in him. "Once they have their claws in you, they never let go," he says. After quitting the army in disgust over the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, Odell applied to the Harvard Business School. He was accepted and on the verge of entering when the CIA offered...
...women are much worse. Elisabeth Bronfen as Cecily simply lacks the control to make of the country ingenue a polished caricature. Her emotional range is too limited, and some of her expressions--like the look of disgust she shoots the men at end of Act II--are absurdly out of character. The humor in Gwndolen's role should stem from her delivery of hard-hearted lines with disarming sweetness. Brooks Clapp totally misinterprets the part, however; icily indifferent, she walks about stiffly with her nose in the air, as though she'd just been starched...
...reactionary's heart good to see. With Lester Maddox as its presidential candidate, the AIP has a slightly easier time getting media coverage than have the other minority parties. But some of Maddox's initial support has melted away, as the Reagan supporters who left the Republican party in disgust began to feel that AIP was a little too far gone, even for them...