Word: nastier
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...they are completely unperturbed. He is successful and likes his work; she seems unconcerned by her own lack of a career. only problem with their lives, seemingly, is its lack of problems. They react to this situation in three ways--boredom, guilt about their affluence, and obsession with the nastier aspects of life even material security and good taste cannot overcome--loss of control and death. The wife is haunted by the fear that something will happen to her five-year-old. The husband refuses to fly, and is horrified to find that she took a plane to Baden. Unfortunately...
...this century's funniest writers, Evelyn Waugh was also one of its most melancholy, a man submerged in private rancor. "You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic," he informed a friend. "Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being...
...Watergate cast, few had a reputation for being tougher, wilier, nastier or more tenaciously loyal to Richard Nixon than onetime Presidential Adviser Charles W. Colson. The former Marine captain is alleged by Jeb Stuart Magruder to have urged the original Watergate bugging and has been implicated in a host of other dirty tricks, including the forgery of a State Department cable. At the peak of his influence, he proudly boasted that his commitment to the re-election of the President was such that "I would walk over my grandmother if necessary...
...CREEP, too, was strongly tied to the President, Nixon the man would maintain a low-key profile, and they would exploit his carefully publicized role as President. The beauty of this strategy lay in the tight "security in the national interest" the President controlled to keep his nastier acts from the public eye. So detente was played up, the bombings of Cambodia were to remain a secret, and the employment of 15,000 to 20,000 Thai mercenaries in Laos, in direct violation of congressional edict, would not be officially revealed until Ambassador Godley testified before Congress while Watergate...
...ground of transience, of irrational shiftlessness, that Wester mann's work has its affinities to that of other artists in the Chicago show. But their work is blacker, nastier and-in contrast to his demonic refinement-exuberantly gross. A work like June Leafs Ascension of Pig Lady, of which Woman-Theater, 1968, is a detail, is as nearly without formal interest as a work of art can be. Lush, coarse and obesely theatrical, it makes Red Grooms look like Mondrian. Gladys Nilsson's punningly titled Baroquen Oats (broken oats? baroque notes?) is a joyful orgy of animal...