Word: horridness
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...heavies' heavy-handed make-up job was more yahoo than human. The hair of Edmund and Cornwall was plastered, their cheeks puffed. The two sisters looked equally horrid. Their hair must have been set with an eggbeater. Even Carnovsky's make-up, while giving his face the cast of a Biblical patriarch, seemed at times rigid enough to hide expression...
...Great American Desert is very much like the proverbial little girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead: when it is good, it is very good, and when it's bad, it certainly is horrid. Like the little girl, it is moody, often funny, sometimes serious, frequently and petulantly cute, and then again just plain naughty. Within a scant hour, it manages to touch on the following subjects: the American Ideal, larceny, age, prostitution, sypnilis, dope addiction, juvenile delinquency, homosexuality, et al. That kind of range would be difficult in any play--in The Great American...
This time she is married to Rod Taylor, who gamely shoulders the burden of manning a myth. The two have moved to England for business reasons, and Doris quickly establishes herself as an adorable young matron who is crazy about Rod, small animals and bird watchers, but detests those horrid men who hunt foxes. She also drives on the wrong side of the road. She just doesn't seem cut out for England...
...days, the restaurant staff may wish it had made more of an effort. For Claiborne can dish out as good as he gets-or as bad. And when he says good, it is very, very good for the restaurant's business. When he says bad, it can be horrid. "Our children depend on this restaurant for their future," complained one hard-hit owner in a letter to the editor...
...cover story last Feb. 12 on the influential but little-known Soviet economics professor, Evsei Liberman, revealed that the winds of economic change were astir in the land of the Soviets-and that they were blowing from the West. The Russians predictably denied that they were edging toward that horrid condition of affairs called capitalism, and Liberman himself fired off a two-page cable (TIME LETTERS, March 5), spelling out his views...