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...international business. A Scottish-born U.S. investment banker signed a contract to run one of England's largest government-owned companies. In return, the New York firm he is leaving will be compensated by receiving up to $4.1 million. Members of Parliament denounced the indemnity plan as "monstrous" and "farcical." One M.P. compared it to something straight out of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta...
Each of the 200 missiles would have its own oval "racetrack," ten to 15 miles long. Along every track would be 23 underground shelters. Playing a kind of shell game, a monstrous, 180-ft.-long TEL (transporter-erector-launcher) would laboriously haul the MX from one shelter to another. Or the TEL might leave the missile in place for a while and carry a dummy MX to another shelter or around the course. Watching from the sky, Soviet spy satellites could never be sure exactly where the missile was and hence would have to target all 23 shelters on each...
...argument that these anthropologists have the right (or academic freedom) to show such films, I say that one would be well within his right to show films on mutilation of Nazi or South African prison inmates to a class of medical students, but such an act is considered so monstrous that it would cause outrage. Because a practice is "widespread" (as is sadistic assault in this country) does not justify a filmic academic presentation to a college classroom...
Peter Sellars is no actor. Full of noise--moans, sighs, barks, wimpers, heavy breath--his Lear is pitiable, not tragic. Like the monstrous fur coat that drapes his frail frame for much of the evening, the role of Lear dwarfs Sellars. Rather than confront the character, Sellars flops to his knees, letting his words drool in an endless, barely audible stream. His tortured soul is senile...
Sophy looked monstrous, huge, black-eye-hollows and the Hitlerian moustache of shadow caught by the light under her nostrils...