Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally, the complex allegories of sex: sex in all its unimaginable innocence, or sex reeking with the full perfume of the swamp. And all these urgencies are seen or sensed through a hot wash of blood which, deny it though we will, fascinates us nearly to the point of shame...
When the New Riders lost Garcia they inherited an amazing steel player, but they also lost their ability to pull off slow numbers, to be very eclectic, and to write good material. They must be the worst songwriters of any good band around, and it's a shame. Still they're a good outdoor band, and though western Massachusetts isn't exactly the Mojave, this is Lanox's biggest gig of the summer. August 30th...
...anti-Semite. "We are sitting in Jerusalem, the city of the Torah, and not in Kampala," remarked Lor-incz as he accused Goren of autocratic tactics in appointing religious judges. The rabbinate's decree cited the 12th century philosopher Maimonides' advocacy of a ban against "he who shames a scholar." Lorincz offered a Talmudic citation in reply: "Where God's name is put to shame, there is no obligation to pay respect to the rabbi." The decree orders the "whole House of Israel" not to eat, drink, talk or pray with the outcast. But far from being...
...OLDEST PROFESION in the wold has finally began so painted, padded and well-packaged by Hollywood that it's been sold into respectability. Prostitution is still illegal, sure, but like other professions that used to be morally reprehensible, it begins to lose its shame when it becomes big business. Men who were "in trade" used to be socially blighted. Acting, as long as actors were poor, was considered a dishonorable occupation for centuries--until mass audiences and later the silver screen turned actors into billionaires. When Xaviera Hollander announced that she had struck it rich, she was asking the world...
Blaming the CIA. Perhaps to bolster the Prime Minister's conspiracy theory, some Indians last week insisted that her political opposition had received support from abroad. Members of the Congress youth wing demonstrated outside the U.S. Information Service library in New Delhi, shouting: "Shame, shame, shame on the CIA." They were parroting the inevitable, automatic cry of Indian pro-Soviet Communist leaders and some Congress Party politicians who have charged that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was linked to the imprisoned opposition leaders...