Word: patheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It's hard to take such ridiculous misappropriations of the language of the gay rights movement seriously. I feel like I should be offended, but events like the "coming out" dinner are so pathetic I'm not.
The new job as de facto leader of what Moi calls Kenya's recovery strategy is Leakey's biggest challenge yet. Kenya was once one of the most successful developing countries in Africa. But its economy and image have deteriorated over the past decade--not in an explosion of violence...
Perhaps our advancing society is telling me that my desires aren't sick at all. In fact, they demonstrate how I think of women as people, instead of animalistic sexual toys. Body hair is a fortress between me and the person I love, a way of preventing me from getting...
It's embarrassing but true: I'm a disposable-camera junkie. Ever since my last real camera started making pathetic whirring sounds as it struggled in vain to advance the film, I've lived in denial, telling myself I'd buy just one more disposable to tide me over. That...
NAME: New York Post AGE: 198 OCCUPATION: Tabloid/Clinton basher/would-be political journal BEST PUNCH: In reporting the Baldwin rebuke, referred to him as "underemployed," "portly" and "pathetic"; two days later, ran an unflattering photo of him, left, under the headline FROM HUNKY TO CHUNKY