Word: disgustful
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...represents a rare example of America rising to meet a crisis before it reaches insane proportions, much of an archivist's dream can no longer be made into reality: many films are permanently lost, and Hollywood's history includes stories that fill a modern-day film anthropologist with disgust. Directors rarely had the right to edit their own films, and it became common practice for studios to re-cut and mangle films they thought potentially commercial...
...Bogart's gin-swilling equal Bogart's own anguish at watching her dispose of it, bottle by bottle. Lines in the printed script easily passed-by become audience-stoppers: Bogart's apology for his growling stomach ("There ain't a thing I can do about it.") or his shivering disgust of leeches ("Anythin' I hate in this world it's leeches! Filthy devils...
...flamboyantly mustachioed fund raiser (George Segal); a gruff, insecure womanizer (Jack Warden) who, upon hearing the bad news while in bed with his girl, dutifully removes his toupee; an oleaginous scholar of comic books (Sorrell Booke); and a Talmudic professor-lecturer (Joseph Wiseman) who wears an expression of perpetual disgust, as if he were forever smelling fried...
...beaky, more solid - and yet, elusive. His most recent series of massive limestone figures, which he Las been working on since 1965, emphasize his profound disillusionment with the state of the world. "If you look at the first page of the newspaper," says Ernst, "you feel such overwhelming disgust for everything going on in the world that you must echo this." In his gigantic stone monoliths, Ernst's angst becomes monumental. The figures are droll and disquieting, monstrous and enchanting. His mammoth Big Brother, wearing a visored cap, or his two Seraphim totems, sticking out their tongues, provoke laughter...
...Upon reading of TIME'S "Man of the Year" selection, my reactions were disbelief, disgust and finally agreement. I had thought the "Man of the Year" was a model leader who had furthered mankind's striving for a better world. I now understand this title to be the "Most Talked About Man of the Year." I must agree this is true...