Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who read Harper's because of Kinsley will probably throw up their hands in disgust and join great Harper's writers like Wilfrid Sheed and David Owen in jumping ship. But the new Harper's is not hopeless or craven, just different. It's still witty and informative, and the counterman at Nini's Corner reports that it's selling very well. At the very least it deserves a chance to prove itself...
Upon attending the meeting, however, and listening Peter Sellars rave, my cautious optimism was replaced by skepticism and then disgust. Those in attendance were first treated to a cursory summation of the plans, and then an extended glorification of Sellars' past performances. The director's discourse was nothing short of ridiculous--while some thespians might find such self-centered badinage amusing. I and others merely grew impatient. My desire to walk was only tempered by my wish not to be lambasted by Sellars as a non-visionary "scumhead", as potential walkouts on the 18th were labeled. Besides, some members...
Europeans have long looked down their well-bred noses in disgust at America and its minority problem. Now they can look inward to search for the solution. Loretta T. Scheffer Fort Walton Beach...
...frontier of unknown territory. He also wanted to deepen his understanding of the muscular frame, whose shapes determine the figure and are the key to proportion and beauty. Nowhere in his work do the scientific and aesthetic impulses twine more closely. But they grew under the shadow of disgust, and to appreciate these drawings one must grasp the difficulty of making them. The anatomist had no preservatives except alcohol and, of course, no refrigeration. For some of his deeper and more complex dissections, Leonardo would have had to spend a week or more with his nose in an open cadaver...
Neither touching nor humorous in their dimness, they can engender only one emotion: disgust. Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden and Wallace Shawn are among those trying to find some overtone or undertone they can resonate to, but the script is so dull and the direction so lacking in dynamics that they are reduced to aimless noodling. The depression they feel in their bereft state will quickly communicate itself to any viewer...