Word: hideous
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...cone-shaped, rabbit-producing hat was present; the members were clad in jeans and shuffling playing cards. Asked what they had most in common with Harry Potter, darling of the magic world, no one responded except J. Benjamin St. Clair ’04, who muttered, “Hideous birthmarks...
...Pevsner ignored him altogether in the 1936 edition of his seminal Pioneers of Modern Design. It was only after 1962 that Gaudí was admitted to its pages. George Orwell, in Barcelona during the Civil War, was more explicit, calling the Sagrada Família "one of the most hideous buildings in the world...
...wait, you’re already hideous...
...nothing else to tell. Alas, fair reader, you know almost nothing about me. Based on my name, you can surmise that I am some manner of minority. Judging by the creepy photo of my eyes that accompanies this column, it would appear that I am some sort of hideous man-beast or perhaps even a gargoyle. But beyond that you know nothing. Did you know that I spent the best summer of my life following Bob Dylan around the country or that I was the first man on the moon? Did you know that I can bench-press 750 pounds...
...course, that sidesteps the question of whether HP and Compaq can successfully merge without leaving the floor slick with blood. Most large-scale tech-firm mergers have been hideous disasters. Compaq's last acquisition, the Digital Equipment Corp., was a textbook example of how not to do it. Good products died, top talent fled and resentment lingered for years after management cut 15,000 jobs. Now HP plans, upon the merger, to lay off 15,000; it also hopes for cost savings of $2.5 billion. A team of 500 is working full time on integrating the companies, though most...