Word: horrid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standing around in a G-string with tissues stuffed up her nose. "I have even gone so far as to roll around in a semiclad state on piles of money and Michael Douglas," she says. All for just a few million lousy bucks. But it's not endlessly horrid. "You just have to remind yourself that you may get stuck with hairpins every day, but you can also get Tom Jones in person for your husband's birthday...
Possibly true. Some filmmakers on a mission, moreover, can be guilty of bombastic overkill. Indictment begins with an ominous message-"This story happened in America in our times''-and has the sanctimonious tone of people who think they are discovering a horrid injustice for the first time. Indeed, Indictment makes its point far less subtly and effectively than such nonfiction works as The Thin Blue Line or the Frontline documentaries, which examined court cases that had been less thoroughly hashed over than the McMartin case. Still, for all its journalistic pretensions, Indictment is powerful and affecting television...
...addition to its sensitive, tasteful (can we speak of tasteful?) presentation of the story of the destruction of Europe's Jews, the Holocaust Memorial dedicates an entire section to the consideration of America's ambiguous response to these horrid events. The Memorial does not attempt to white-wash the callousness with which the FDR administration responded to the Nazi genocide...
...there a more stimulating, captivating and exasperating pianist than Sviatoslav Richter? When the reclusive Ukrainian-born musician -- the last of the Soviet-era superstars -- is good, he's very, very good. And when he's bad, he's horrid. But in an age of cookie-cutter pianists, each playing the same program in the same way, Richter, at least, is gloriously himself...
Roberta and I have somehow adapted to this horrid difficulty by introducing ourselves to each other. Roberta has taken the time (however inconvenient it may be for everyone waiting on line) to read off my name from my ID and repeat it aloud so that she remembers it. Likewise, I read the name off of her name tag and so I know hers...