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...years later, Goethe suffered another creative commotion, and in less than three weeks produced The Sorrows of Young Werther, a novel that swept across Europe "like the Blue Plague"-a reference to the blue frock coat that Werther wore and that millions of young men now affected. To the disgust of their elders, they also went in for such Wertherisms as poetry, suicide and (horror of horrors in 18th century Germany) nude swimming...
...Vietnamese saying has it that "a man born in Nghe An province will oppose anything." That is where Ho was born, in 1890, when France dominated Indo-China-much to the disgust of Ho's father, a scholarly colonial employee who was fired by the French for his "patriotic" activities. After schooling in Hué and Saigon, Ho (then known as Nguyen Tat Thanh) headed for Europe in 1912 as a cabin boy on a French steamer. After a brief apprenticeship at London's Carlton Hotel under the famed chef Escoffier, Ho drifted on to Paris...
...TULA. A beautiful spinster (Aurora Bautista) is tormented by mixed desire and disgust for her widowed brother-in-law in Spanish Director Miguel Picazo's impeccable first film, an essay on the rigors of virginity Castilian style...
...staggered in with an 81; Arnold Palmer, who also had a 67 in practice, got his figures reversed with a 76. Three pros finished in the 90s-"How am I ever going to explain this to the members at my club?" gulped one-and two more picked up in disgust...
...habits were brutal: he shot one man for pushing his horse, ordered another executed because "I saw in his glance that he waa a traitor," once lined up 60 enemy prisoners in rows of three "to save ammunition by killing three with one shot." To show his disgust for the dandified "chocolate drinkers" who, he feared, were taking over the revolution, he ordered a prisoner shot in front of his luncheon guests. Villa's only interest, according to Guzman, was to preserve the revolution for the poor-with whom, as a bandit, he had always shared his plunder...