Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smallest, zero. His average monthly income is $850, and business is getting better all the time. He will admit to only five failures among the marriages he has arranged: two because the husbands went off to prison and three because the young men (to his great disgust) turned out to be inscrutable. Why did the failures occur? "I couldn't test their engines in advance," he says. Now his male applicants must supply medical certificates attesting to their likely potency. From that point on, Ishizaka relies on intuition...
Before World War II, Céline spat out the story of his life and times in savage prose poems of hatred and disgust, which instantly made him famous for his genius and notorious for his antiSemitism. He was a vagrant, a prisoner, a hero during the first World War and a traitor during the Second. In 1944 he was jailed for collaborating with the Nazis, and for the next few years was in exile when not in prison. Now, seven years after his death in 1961, Castle to Castle, the final book by this demented genius, appears in English...
...Sardines?" he asked with disgust...
...machines of the 1940s, and particularly the atom bomb, in Hulten's opinion, helped to turn artists away in disgust from technological subject matter. But by the late 1950s, the machine was beginning to attract a new following. This postwar generation could treat a machine with easy familiarity. Claes Oldenburg's liquidly drooping Giant Soft Fan is, among other things, a gently nostalgic evocation of times past -since, after all, air conditioning is more common nowadays. Jean Tinguely's joyous black Rotozaza, No. 1 tosses out colored balls and then sucks them back in again, a mystifying...
Like a Phoenix. Thus last week, for the 29th time since World War II, Italy lapsed into governmental crisis. On the surface, this crisis seemed a bad one, with no solution in sight. "Siamo pronti per i colonnelli" ("We are ready for the colonels"), cried a young Roman in disgust at the nation's squabbling politicians. Indeed, in another, less patient land, the kind of chaos and confusion, disillusion and dismay gripping Italy would long since have provoked the army to take over. But appearances are deceiving in Italy, a country with its own peculiar laws of logic...