Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fernando Collor de Mello won the Brazilian presidency in 1989 by reaching out to the descamisados, the country's shirtless poor. Now Brazilians by the thousands are putting on shirts -- black ones -- to demonstrate their disgust with a Collor regime that is haunted by scandal and economic failure. An inflation rate of 20% a month and record unemployment had already eroded support for the once popular Collor even before congressional investigators recently uncovered a kickback and bid-rigging racket engineered by top presidential aides. The embattled President made the mistake of asking followers to dress in green and yellow...
...three centuries later. So ends a chronicle in which fanaticism and torture become indistinguishable. And in which the most fully rounded character is that of the obsessed and eccentric author, interrupting himself constantly with marginal ironies and references to his own 20th century travels, looking on in fascination and disgust, and wishing all dogmatists, as he says in his dedication, "a warm stay in Hell...
...ministries. Asked if his patience with Saddam Hussein is wearing thin, Bush said, "I've been fed up with him for a long time." From the warring states of the former Yugoslavia, images of inhuman conditions in detention camps flashed to television screens around the world, provoking disgust and anger...
Cynicism, anger and disgust are the buzzwords of this political season and Robbie--who doesn't want to give her last name--is no exception...
...have no desire to see them. Disgust prevails over curiosity...