Word: horridness
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Lately, even perfectly horrid experiences have come to take on a strangely sentimental quality. For seniors like me, time that previously seemed monotonous and endless has become punctuated by "lasts": the last shopping period I will every scurry through, the last time I will return to Harvard after winter or spring break, the last time I will wait in line to buy sourcebooks. (Okay, so it's not all that...
...person with a mother and an aunt who have Alzheimer's, I very much related to the accuracy of Roger Rosenblatt's description of this horrid disease [ESSAY, Jan. 12]. Being with my mother is like encountering 10 different people at the same time. Which one will be at the other end of the exchange? The nasty one? The childlike one? The confused one? The hostile one? The loving one? Or, hardest of all, the one who seems as if she is the same sweet person I have always known? For whatever consolation it is, I believe that her awareness...
...LITTLE KICKS Aired 10/10/96. Typical of this season, a golden moment (Elaine's horrid dancing) is mixed with a thin idea (Jerry as a bootleg video auteur). And before long, the awful Mandelbaums would appear...
...only does he unfairly exploit this real and sensitive issue as a cheap emotional trigger, but he is so confident with this ruse that he neglects to actually personify the evil at hand. With forced and belabored "filmmaking," he painfully portrays the anguished and horrid plight of the Africans so as to equate any and all adversaries they might have, whether they be Spanish slave traders, greedy British sailors or the American legal system--which he only later in the movie realizes is actually defending them. His treatment seems to raise a long, accusatory finger at somebody, but doesn...
...Last time I was here, it was a mess," said Sam L. Wolff '93 as he gazed around the new Coop. "Textbooks were missing, and the management was horrid. Anything would be better, and this seems a lot better...