Word: obloquy
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...Reserve, La., "What I say is just what you say to each other around the dining room table; but I'm the only politician who has the courage to say it in public." There is a rogue air of risk to his enterprise. Only those willing to risk obloquy will put his bumper stickers on their car, post his signs in their yard -- and so each such display becomes a kind of guerrilla statement. He revels in being attacked by "respectable" people. "The President of the U.S. attacked me ((when he ran for the state legislature)). The ex-President attacked...
...Boone Pickens, Paul Bilzerian and Canada's Robert Campeau once made boardrooms tremble and the stock market dance. No longer. More jeered than feared, many raiders are mired in debt, saddled with bankrupt companies or deprived of their clout. Others who profited from the buyout binge face public obloquy or even years in jail...
...faced in decades -- or the most constructive. Molded by famine and war, promised a measure of hope after Stalin's demise and then abruptly disillusioned, Gorbachev is not the sort of man who would willingly drag his country back into the dark days of repression, economic hardship and international obloquy. If there is a lesson in the 56-year education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, it is that a new, unfamiliar kind of leader has risen in the Soviet Union, and that the old rules of dealing with that long-suffering land are suddenly outdated. For the West, the education...
...when the Italian scholar Roberto Longhi mounted the crucial show that brought Caravaggio's turbulent genius out of three centuries of neglect and obloquy, this was not a problem. But 34 years later, thanks to the enthusiasm generated by Longhi, more people probably go to, say, the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome to worship Caravaggio than to worship...
...regret that Friday deeply and would continue to regret it for the rest of his life." Happily, such stentorian tones do not often interfere with a drama no dream merchant could concoct. Hollywood, superb at turning its sand grains into pearls, stayed true to tradition. Far from suffering obloquy and ostracism, Begelman went on to pilot MGM. Hirschfield became head of 20th Century-Fox, where he successfully defended an executive accused of padding an expense account. By last week serious bids were being offered for TV rights to Indecent Exposure. A nagging question remains: Will some producer try to play...