Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then he drugs her, and when she wakes next morning in his bed, he tells her she is no longer fit to become a bride of Christ, that to save her honor she must marry him. She runs away in horror and disgust; in guilt and despair he hangs himself...
...Oscar for his sup porting role as the cold-blooded gambler in The Hustler, the temperamental pride of Detroit became the first nominee in the 35-year history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to opt out of the competition. His announced reason: disgust with the lobbying and self-promotion increasingly expected of Oscar seek ers. Said Scott: "I take the position that actors shouldn't be forced to out-advertise and out-stab each other." - A literary lode of remarkable proportions was brought to Manhattan by Mary Welsh Hemingway, whose pursuit of the unpublished works...
There he became so absorbed in his work that some of his schoolmates were under the impression that he was a mute. Bourdelle went on to the tradition-bound Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (which he quit in disgust after six months), finally landed in the studio of Rodin. The great man admired his young assistant from the start, but in spite of his affection for the master, Bourdelle never considered himself a Rodin disciple...
...novel, this reconstruction takes the modest form of forming a guerilla army under Raspeguy to fight the Algerian rebels. Applying what they learned from the Communist Viets, with a violence inspired by disgust at the Metropolitan France where they spent their leaves, they succeed in stemming the F.L.N. tide. The novel ends on this optimistic note, but before the Fifth Republic and the institution of the Gaullist liberation policy...
...chaste scruples and doubts go to the Devil." For Devil, Bloomfield adds thoughtfully, "read, if you like, 'Mr. Samson.' " Yet who is Samson? The bookseller shrouds himself in dialectic and mockery. He rails against society, and conjectures with an unreadable expression that in the "groans of disgust or cynical obscenities" uttered by buyers of his pornography, "one can hear the cry of man seeking a lost paradise." Does the Tempter hope to ensnare man or set him free...