Word: shreddings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bedazzled, from unintentionally risible to just plain awful, she is worth more than $4,000,000, earns about $950,000 a year. Even more astonishing, she has succeeded in becoming the No. 1 sex symbol in a world in which sex has been stripped of its last, diaphanous shred of symbolism...
...lived today, Job would undoubtedly be a fan of the New York Mets. So would Sir Francis Bacon ("Adversity is not without comforts and hopes"). So is anyone with the slightest sympathy for the underdog, the smallest shred of a sense of futility, the least understanding of how it feels to lose, and lose, and lose...
...belief that absolutely nothing matters anymore. So far gone is Carnovsky's doctor that, after washing and drying his hand in a basin, he proceeds immediately to wash them all over again. At the end Carnovsky shows us the mere shell of a man with not a shred of humanity left inside...
...certainly not inconceivable that all or some of the executed men were indeed Israeli spies. However, in the past when Israeli spies were captured, the Jerusalem government either admitted their identity or else kept quiet. This time Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared that the accusations were "without a shred of truth." Washington agreed that the executed men were not in a position to spy for anyone. Throughout the world, they were widely considered to be innocent because the trials had been held in secret; if the Iraqis had had any really convincing evidence, runs one argument, they would have made...
...crew were so horrifying as to stun the world anew last week. To some extent, the techniques consist of old-fashioned torture protracted and refined, in a mixture of mental and physical ordeals. The P.O.W. may be kept in utter isolation or thrust into a cell group without a shred of privacy. He may be forced to sit or stand in the same position for hours on end until his bodily functions go awry. His interrogators may keep him constantly unnerved, preventing him from sleeping, exploiting his normal feelings of guilt by focusing on painful events in his life...