Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's impending storm" and "a world in a terrible state." But unlike his earlier works, a warm and positive feeling suffuses. The Blue Mask. Reed, a veteran of a difficult business and a difficult era, could easily have become a cynic with age. But instead of displaying unalloyed disgust, Reed confronts us with a touchingly realistic album that tempers anger with hope...
Morss has previously been involved in Republican politics, serving on the Republican State Committee in 1968. Halfway through her term, Morss said she quit the state committee "with a general sense of disgust" because she saw the "Reagan thing coming...
...begging his wife to paint her nipples with lipstick, Arthur (Steve Martin) comes off not playful, but pathetic. When he tries to excite her with a story of a couple making love in an elevator, he arouses only disgust. And when, unshaven and crude, he whines, "Joanie, I need you," it becomes clear that sexuality, instead of carrying him out of his squalid little world, only marks him more clearly as part of it. Arthur's insatiable libido--around which the movie revolves--may or may not represent the collective frustrations of the age but it sure doesn't make...
...eggnog is not without its spice or season. Lehrer's best lyrics are feats of compression; works like Masochism Tango ("You can raise welts like nobody else") or When You Are Old and Gray ("Say you'll love and trust me/ For I know you'll disgust me") have retained their piquancy. Surprisingly, it is Lehrer's melodies that show the fewest wrinkles, switching from exuberant marches to minor ballads with a fluency that went unnoticed in his postgraduate period. Gary Pearle and Mary Kyte's galvanic direction aids the songs when it whispers...
Despite his disgust with his sister's problem, however, Jim brought up the issue with his parents in the hope that a psychiatrist could be contacted by the family. Their reaction, however, was typical of parents who prefer to deny that an eating problem exists until directly confronted with evidence...