Word: disgustful
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According to television ratings, "Who Wants to Sell Their Soul?" gained audience momentum as the night wore on. Apparently the show was especially popular with teenage girls and young women viewers. I could only hope that these women shared my motivations for watching the show; that their confusion and disgust that someone would marry a person they knew nothing about except the size of his stock portfolio prevented them from tearing their eyes away from the screen...
...easier for them to get to the polls, extending voting hours, lowering the voting age and introducing absentee balloting and "motor voter" statutes that automatically register people when they get a driver's license. Still, voter turnout has declined steadily. Political scientists believe the underlying cause is apathy and disgust with politics, not the inconvenience of voting. Putting a ballot on the Internet might even further depress turnout by cheapening one of the hallowed rituals of democracy. "The business of democracy," says Curtis Gans, an analyst of voting behavior, "shouldn't be the same as getting your e-mail...
...There can't be many who remember the '70s with anything but amazement and disgust. In 1974, the columnist Joseph Alsop said glumly: "I have begun to think that the seventies are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth...
...someone in yellow leather (or pleather? I couldn't be sure, even with our proximity) pants fighting a Dracula-esque character with fangs and blood spurting out of his mouth. Dracula's girlfriend then came out, much to the delight of the 18,000 in attendance and to my disgust...
...playing of the race card" has implications that have not been lost on students. Several council members report disgust at how this impeachment process has been framed in terms of race. Others counter that the vicious attack on a black student by a group of white men cannot be ignored. Admittedly, the council has not always seemed a friendly space to minorities. I have often said that women and minorities are not fairly represented in the council. Yet this is not clearly a racial issue. I am sympathetic to council members who state that the question is not Burton...