Word: hideously
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...coming to him this spring, in his last season as a Harvard athlete--his picture on a track schedule card. Even then, not everything was right, because if you look closely, you can see etched on his right bicep a big blue tattoo of what Ciollo says is a "hideous insect being stuck with a metal...
...catchy title--Hideous Kinky--but it doesn't mean anything. It's just a nonsense phrase that sets two little girls named Lucy and Bea (Carrie Mullan and Bella Riza) to giggling. Certainly it doesn't catch the patient, tender tones of this gently exotic movie or the spirit of the girls' mum, Julia (Kate Winslet). "Sweetly addled" comes closer to the mark. Or maybe "daftly dreamy...
...skin disease that in his 50s turned his nose into a purple bulb. He hated to be alone but had no talent for making friends--as distinguished from mistresses. He started a new romance at age 74 with a titled Englishwoman of 49. Women saw past not only the hideous nose but also the peremptory manner that they thought disguised an inner shyness. With some reason: Morgan was ruthless in getting rid of inept partners, but could hardly ever bear to fire them in person...
...checked into the Hotel Inter-Continental in Belgrade, and within 15 minutes someone slipped a manila envelope under the door, a sort of Serbian press kit. It contained atrocity pictures--hideous stills of bodies mutilated, bodies burned in mass graves, bodies without genitals or heads. Welcome to the Balkans. The press kit implied that Bosnian Muslims, the focus of Serbian rage at the time, had done this filthy work. But who could identify killers or victims? Everyone has a death archive; everyone performs a moral sleight of hand: "We're not doing it! And even if we are doing...
...back to science departments at various institutions. He paid Harvard back for his first lab handsomely with a $12.5 million (that's in 1968 dollars, by the way) donation to build the Science Center, which as any good Crimson Keyer will tell you, is as breathtakingly hideous as one of Land's cameras...