Word: shamed
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...successor, Pierre Messmer, a colorless veteran of De Gaulle's Cabinets, made his debut in the Pompidou government in a saccharine and self-serving interview on the government TV network that left many Frenchmen with what Le Monde sadly described as a feeling "of embarrassment, almost of shame...
...Duong Van (Big) Minh told me that "the political prisoner situation has become a scandal which is driving non-Communists into the arms of Communists." One woman who had been tortured almost to death asked me: "Why do the American people do this to us?" I was sick with shame, as all of us would be if we knew the whole story. Commendable as it is, your article barely scratches the surface...
...revelation that Virginia endured ritual sexual molestations by her half-brother for years during her childhood is simply the missing link in our understanding of her tenuous sense of her own physical sexuality." The episode seared her mind: forty-five years later she could record. "I still shiver with shame at the memory of my half-brother, standing me on a ledge, aged about 6 or so exploring my private parts." The loathsome violations by a family member undoubtedly were the foundations for her evolution into a self-admitted "sexual coward," and possibly were connected to her first mental breakdown...
...Hollywood has not produced a single movie in the past ten years that compares favorably with The Shame or The Passion of Anna. I hope that Liv Ullmann has the strength to retain a balance between her Bergman-like innocence and the powerful klieg lights of Hollywood...
...shame! Even though her own people "denounced her as a sinner and a whore," you glamorized the actions of Liv Ullmann...