Word: hideous
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...touching me, which I have finally learned always sounds a lot better than it turns out. Besides, I'm not photogenic (see last week's issue, page 8). That's why TIME uses a drawing in the middle of this column instead of a picture. You cannot imagine how hideous Calvin Trillin...
...Quincy House: 1. Convenient location, hideous architecture...
...performance, a son et lumiere. My search for the perfect shoe has made me an inadvertent expert - a horrified expert - on shoe developments. I have noticed, as you may have, that in recent years the designs of men's and women's shoes have grown both comic and hideous. What accounts for this? Shoes proclaim the foot. Terribly ugly statements are being made. Some of the proclamations verge on the psychotic...
...have argued in the past that the death penalty was justified, in certain brutal cases, on the basis of the social contract. That is: Some hideous crimes demand the ultimate punishment in order to satisfy the essentially civilizing deal that we make with one another as citizens. We forgo individual revenge, deferring to the law, but depend upon a certainty that the law will give us a justice that must include appropriate harshness. I favored the Texas folk wisdom: "He needs killing." If the law fails in that task, I said, and people see that evil is fecklessly tolerated, then...
...distrust of the large, of the enormous (except for Big Labor--for now). Their spirit recalls a conflict from the '70s that also pitted young idealists against a fearsome acronym. When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, moved by a belief that small is beautiful and big is hideous, set out to build a personal computer that would challenge IBM's great mainframes, their aim was not merely technical but also social. They wanted to bring power to the people. Now the people have it, and they're using it. To do precisely what is still a mystery...