Word: horrid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they were on the new album, and not because they felt inspired to play them. It got so bad, Anastasio said, that at a show in San Francisco in late May, he was so frustrated that during one song, he wanted to smash his guitar to pieces (certainly a horrid thought to Paul Languedoc, the band's sound engineer who built the guitar by hand...
...mean by Philip Roth the author, Philip Roth the character and Philip Roth the imposter. The opening of the story explains that Philip Roth the character (and the author too) spent part of 1987 addicted to the sleeping drug Halcion prescribed after a botched knee operation. The pills produced horrid side effects of depression, suicidal tendencies and hallucinations...
...outsider, an orphan. These people think he is theirs. Leo knows better: "Because I dream, I'm not." He is half Italian: Leolo Lozone, conceived during his mother's fruitful collision with a sperm-soaked Sicilian tomato. A bright, lonely boy could not be the spawn of this horrid clan. Surely he is not destined to replicate their mean lives and dead-end careers or the madness to which they are all heir. And so, in this slum of bruised humanity that never seems quite human to him, where "the birds endlessly bitch about winter," Leo will scribble his thoughts...
...General-designate has been tripped up by that thing that trips us up day after day, makes us late for meetings, causes us to call in sick when we are well: the struggle for good surrogate care for our kids. Hard sometimes even if you are well to do. Horrid often if you are not." Anne Nelson, author of "Rock-a-Bye Nino: Confessions of a White Mother with a Brown Caregiver" in Mother Jones, contends that "Professional women with the income and requirements of child care are saying, 'Why is the Washington male crowd picking on this woman?' " They...
...worst part of it is some vibration of horrid pleasure. Too many of these people enjoy killing. It has become a sort of cultural addiction...