Word: hideous
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...Huge, hideous, kitschy, but popular nonetheless, these monuments to commercialism are an endangered species...
There are some theories, of course. In what might be called the testosterone theory, a congenital error in the wiring of the male brain leads to a confusion between violence and sex. Men get off on hideous mayhem, and women, supposedly, cover their eyes. Then there's the raging puritan theory, which is based on the statistical fact that those who get slashed or eaten on the screen are usually guilty of a little fooling around themselves. It's only a tingle of rectitude we feel, according to this, when the bad girl finally gets hers. There's even...
...past 30 years, Harvard seems to have fallen into the habit of constructing positively hideous modern buildings. But students and architecture critics alike are looking to this year's construction of the DeWolfe Street dormitory to break Harvard's masochistic mold of modernism...
...speak of Bush's "hideous betrayal" and how "only the willfully ignorant can trust anything this man says about the Middle East." Well, I must be one of those "willfully ignorant" to trust a man who rescued a country from a harsh invasion and did it with an unprecedented straightforwardness and competence...
...have seen the new world order and it sucks. Maybe the war was necessary. Maybe we did need to destroy much of Iraq's military and free Kuwait by force. But given President Bush's hideous betrayal of the Iraqi Kurds and Shiites, only the willfully ignorant can trust anything this man says about the Middle East...