Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invents a completely new perversion at this stage in humanity's march to glory must be held in deepest respect. Comedian Steve Martin managed the trick in his second record album, A Wild and Crazy Guy. He had heard about these absolutely disgusting exhibitions that were being held in Mexico, he said. Cat juggling. "They take the little kitties ..." It is funny, because it calls to mind a bizarre vision of serious cats slashing at a demented Mexican juggler, while an audience of gringo tourists giggles obscenely. The cruelty that would be involved in actually juggling cats...
Human affairs are complicated. I can imagine young readers turning away in weary disgust from such will be--ought to be--a "middle-aged" decade, one not driven by the immediate needs of youth, nor preoccupied with slogans, nor dazzled by the claims of self. The population, we know, will get older in the next ten years, and that will bring its own challenges. But if middle-aged folk lack the impulse for change and criticism, they may partially compensate for this defect by talents for making things work. And we live in a system that desperately needs to learn...