Word: hideous
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...have prejudices. They are like fruit on the tree, ready to be plucked when ripe." On the walls were student sketches of Castro with peace doves, Castro standing atop the globe with a radiant smile, Castro at the Bay of Pigs invasion, a defiant David facing a hideous U.S. Goliath. A reporter asked if art was giving way to politics. "No," said the instructor. "We give the children complete freedom in what they do. I just give them a theme. Last week we talked about Algeria and the Congo. Today, I'll tell them about South Viet...
...pays a dawnbreak visit to the apartment of a middle-aged social worker who has befriended him and who lives in one of those indescribably ugly housing projects. Lumet has the two play out an extremely dramatic scene on her balcony, from which several of her building's hideous cousins are in full view. Her sympathy and his despair confer humanity on that sterile setting seen in the early morning light...
...STORY THUS FAR: In the last episode, Biff Bundle, University Police undercoverman, found himself hot on the trall of a small, nervous foreigner, whom Biff had reason to believe was involved in the hideous murder which had just been discovered in a chemistry lab in Mallinckrodt. At headquarters, Bundle received a phone call from the stranger, who told Biff to meet him at once, muttering cryptically, "ze bronts rhinotseross." When Bundle's immediate notion that the Bronze Rhinoceros was a coffee house proved incorrect, he became convinced that the phrase was an undergraduate nickname for some favored professor. Just...
...suspicious Latin Americans condemned the use of U.S. troops. Complained Red China's press agency, Hsinhua: "The new intervention on the part of the U.S., which came at a moment when U.S. imperialism was wildly extending its aggression in Viet Nam, threw further light on its hideous feature as the international gendarme." The U.S. Communist Party called it a return to "gunboat diplomacy." In Rio de Janeiro, the newspaper Jornal do Brasil said that Johnson's moves "represent the death certificate of the present structure of the inter-American system." But few responsible voices in the U.S. joined...
Biff Bundie burst into University Police headquarters only minutes after an hysterical phone call brought news of the hideous discovery in Mallinckrodt. Unaware of what happened, Biff buttonholed the Chief...