Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starts of pure sexual drive and by stops of convention and respectability. Truffaut, to parallel Pierre, turns on the emotion at the level of characterization and turns it off with a plot of continuous cliches. As Pierre becomes increasingly trapped by his situation, the tension between your sympathy and disgust makes you more and more uncomfortable...
Rockefeller is the weakest link in the well-oiled New York Republican chain. He has tried to attach himself to the rising Lindsay star, much to the disgust of many of Lindsay's backers. (His chief effort--a Newsweek article signed by Rockefeller sycophant Emmett Hughes--tried to give the Governor credit for Lindsay's decision to run.) All of Rockefeller's labors are only casting a very dark shadow over whatever distant light may be shed by the Lindsay star: for the one fact that can explain the byzantine machinations of New York politics in the past year...
...Disgust. The new act is undoubtedly harsh, probably harsher than Castello Branco, a man dedicated to constitutional democracy, would have liked to see. Yet it is what the military linha dura, or hardline, officers demanded. These are the soldiers who led the March 1964 coup against Leftist Joao Goulart in disgust at the corruption, demagoguery, and opportunistic politics that have prevailed in Brazil for years. Under Castello Branco, the Communists have been wiped out but not all the grafters have-and this has been a constant irritation to the military...
...wail of the whistle came out way back there, whoo whoo whoooooo. He heard the man fit the key in the lock and go inside very softly as if he were ashamed. Adele, he pleaded, just once. Willie took the knife out of his jeans. You disgust me, said Adele. Willie tied her wrists to the top bars of the iron bed and lifted her skirt. He felt faint. He glanced at the watch the teacher gave him. Right on time, Willie split Adele's pale belly open from the navel through the vulva. Whoo whooo whoooo...
...Hats off to Senator Dirksen and his stand on repeal of Section 14(b) [Oct. 1]. My disgust with the 89th Congress and its faceless mass of yes men has been somewhat alleviated by Dirksen's refusal to knuckle under to the autocracy of the Johnson Administration. Compulsory unionism is akin to compulsory Communism, and no American should stand...