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...drops a gentle hand on his shoulder. "If you read this on a page," says Miller, "it's so simple. She hardly says anything. But when you look at what she did, it's the whole movie in a nutshell. There's so much complexity there: from disgust to respect to compassion and understanding. She's wise in that moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Catherine Keener | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...with boys on the dance-floor. Of course there have been more than several situations when saying no to getting down seemed impossible and when I felt forced to step in the name of love, but I won’t deny my accompanying discomfort or my subsequent disgust. Who doesn’t feel slightly embarrassed pressed up against their partner, hands stuck to a sweaty back, and onlookers watching on with slight disdain? Dancing today, if you can call it that, has become so mortifying even the semantics make me cringe. Grinding sounds like factory lingo, the month...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, | Title: Sex, Swing, and Stereotypes | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...done carpentry, I’ve done roofing,” he says. “But culinary is the first place I’ve been into where everybody’s not f’ed up on something.” Voice full of disgust and regret, he describes a former roofing boss who, high on cocaine, smashed his fingers in a gearbox...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ingredients for Success, Coming Right Up! | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

...phobia at all, in the sense that it is not a pathological fear. As Bunmi Olatunji, the author of a 2002 University of Arkansas study, summarized, homophobia is “not a conceptually accurate [term].” That is because homophobia implies a pathological disgust tantamount to anxiety or fear of homosexuality. In reality, participants in the Arkansas study reacted with “moral contempt” to homosexuality...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: The Newspeak of Gay ‘Rights’ | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

Pappin was voted extended floor time to respond to critics. “Homophobia is not something that even counts as a phobia,” the Crimson quoted him. “Homophobia is not based on anxiety or fear. It’s based on disgust for homosexual sexual actions...

Author: By Beau C. Robicheaux, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DOOR DROPPED: How to Start a Fight | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

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