Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anecdotes and insights provide a fresh view of the circumstances that bedeviled relations between the sexes a century ago. Take the piteous marital saga of John Ruskin, the most famous art critic of the age. On his wedding night, the 29-year-old Ruskin was paralyzed with disgust when confronted with the first naked female body he had ever seen. Promising to consummate the marriage six years hence, Ruskin told his bride Effie Gray that childbirth would ruin her beauty as well as interfere with their traveling in Europe so he might look at art. When the six years were...
...short time ago, their words and deeds had brought fear to people from Murmansk to Lands End to Jamestown, N.Y. Now they were just an odd and seedy assortment of soldiers, rowdies, bureaucrats and bourgeois, who hardly looked important enough to have provoked the heavy wave of hatred, disgust and indignation which had swept them to the prisoners...
...view of advocates of regulatory reform, including both liberals and conservatives, the Administration mistook the public's disgust with red tape for hostility to all forms of Government regulation. Polls show that most Americans favor deregulation of industry, especially if it encourages competition. (For example, the Administration's deregulation in such economic areas as banking, bus transportation and telecommunications has provoked relatively little controversy.) But a Harris survey this year showed that 88% of Americans prefer even more stringent standards on clean air, and 91% either favor existing regulations on safety in workplaces or want those regulations made...
...reveals her beautiful sopraho in the duet "Barcelona" with Robert. And dark haired dark eyed Halpen as the cynical drunken Joanne displays a stunning voice in two numbers- "The Little Things," which mocks the supposed bliss of marriage and the solo, "The Ladies Who Lunch," which evinces a hearty disgust with pretense...
...finally filled him with boredom, a boredom with society that festered even as he wrote the Marilyn Monroe books and The Executioner's Song. A desire to get the heavyweight crown for imagination was probably not the only thing that drove him to Egypt. Disaffection and disgust could well have had a lot to do with it. Mailer may have imagination, despite this disaster, for a big book. He certainly has talents in abundance which could be put to more useful service. One can only hope he will come home to use them...