Word: hideous
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...helplessly fascinated and regularly appalled by the physical appearance of things. There is, for instance, the "hideous" building in Manhattan where her husband works. "When you see this building you can think only one thing. 'WHY?' is the thing. 'Why? Why? Why?'" A Nantucket neighbor's exercise pants elicit the same befuddlement: "Why wear anything like that on these hot summer days...
...Dragon Flyz $12; Galoob; ages 5 and up Everyone knows this toy. A string is pulled, and something spins into the air. Dragon Flyz, the boy's version of last year's popular Sky Dancers, is an appealingly hideous iteration. The launcher is a ferocious-looking dragon that, when its tail is yanked, shoots off macho warriors or ghoulish villains with bad overbites. Scary, twirly stuff...
Still, there's something hopeful about a hideous past. Though our great intelligence and our elaborate "moral" sentiments were created solely for the purpose of genetic proliferation and not for true edification, they now interact in strange and unpredicted ways, and the occasional burst of moral progress breaks through. People like Jesus and Buddha come along and say radical things that somehow stick in the world's consciousness. And the most animal of institutions--such as slavery--do seem slowly to die out. Who knows where this could lead? Personally, I'd rather see Eden on the horizon--however dimly...
...Dole's favorite locution, is a presidential election "about"? It's about government, in particular, Federal Government. And what, over the past 15 years, have our conservative politicians taught us about that nebulous entity? That it's an evil, of course, and not even a necessary one--a hideous succubus sucking away at the American spirit. (The unmentioned exceptions being those parts that involve prisons and the Pentagon, i.e., the ever colorful and entertaining use of armed force.) So in some ways, the soul-numbing tedium of '96 was the inevitable product of the venerable practice of government bashing...
...felt that the inflammatory nature and sweeping generalizations that filled Mr. Brown's article merited a response. I disagree strongly with his contention that the Confederate flag only represents "murder, lynching, rape and treason" and only embodies the "vilest capacities of man." I will not deny that those hideous actions occurred underneath that flag, nor will I hide from the fact that the "vilest capacities of man" were manifested under the Confederate flag in the form of slavery. Yet, all of these actions also have occurred underneath the American flag. Slavery was practiced underneath the American flag decades before...