Word: shamelessness
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...year-old high school dropout. The 19 were charged, too, in connection with the killings. Whatever the outcome, the trial will certainly become one of the most celebrated in years?if only because the murder of the three young civil rights workers had been so shameless, shocking and senseless a crime...
...Johnson and Nixon. Morrow argues that Johnson’s Senate primary race against Coke Stevenson that year began LBJ’s legacy of deceit. Morrow borrows heavily from Robert Caro’s excellent biography, “Means of Ascent,” to describe the shameless way Johnson misleadingly portrayed his more conservative opponent as a lackey of big labor. Johnson won the primary after a local political boss “corrected a mistake” in the ballots for one precinct...
...directly appoints 30 members of the parliament, which means that the MDC needs to win 76 seats to have a simple majority while the ZANU-PF only needs 71 seats to have a two-thirds majority. The ZANU-PF supports this structural advantage through gang violence, voter intimidation, and shameless abuse of food aid. Simply put, voting for the MDC is a death sentence in rural areas, where famine—thanks to Mugabe’s land-grabbing policies—enables the ZANU-PF party to condemn MDC voters to starvation. The MDC was further emasculated through...
...Bates is capable of gothic comic excess, here she underplays the mother as a frustrated housewife, aware of a larger world of culture and glamour outside somewhere but awkwardly uncertain about just what she is missing. Bates perfectly balances the ruthless selfishness of the mother's ambitions, and her shameless attempt at larceny to fulfill them, against the depth of her yearning to rise from the starving to the self-assured class. --By William A. Henry...
Though TV smut should have been cleaned up years ago, at least some decent standards may now be enforced. But when will someone do something about the shameless clothes our young teenagers are wearing...