Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This past weekend, Leverett House held an Anti-Valentine's Day Dance. Admission: $3 per person, $7 per couple. We applaud them for their true understanding of what an odious occasion Valentine's Day really...
...didn't run the second ad, either. But it made us think a little more about why we refused to publish the first one. It wasn't just the ad's written content; it was also the message behind the content. Bradley Smith's "difference of opinion" is particularly odious. And the main reason The Crimson decided against running the ad was the fact that it was hateful. We didn't want to sell our space to print a hateful message, regardless of its exact wording...
...Joel Rifkin's gifts as a gardener. "Joel could tell you exactly what's growing," says Frank Barton, who lives across the street from the landscaper. "He knew how long it'll grow and when it'll die." But Joel Rifkin cultivated life and death in other, more odious ways. And last week he revealed a terrifying bouquet of evil...
...Crimson's performance against the Minutemen was like one of those sandwiches that looks so appealing from the outside--golden brown French bread with a fancy toothpick holding everything together. But one bite and what's in the middle reveals itself to be odious, a mixture of anchovies and peanut butter...
...work with. And the $7 million HBO earmarked for the project probably came in handy too. The film remains reasonably faithful to the spirit of the book, while vastly simplifying the plot. Whereas Burrough and Helyar recount a story that involves dozens of rapacious financiers, greedy executives, odious publicists, duplicitous bankers and devious attorneys, hbo has boiled down the cast of characters to only about a dozen. But they're all pretty avaricious, devious, duplicitous or odious, so very little has been lost in translation...