Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refer to the Berlin Wall as "ugly." Those who have seen the Warsaw Ghetto Wall would disagree with you. Built to German specifications, it cast a taller shadow and was uglier by far. It signified extermination for all those inside, as opposed to the Berlin one which merely restricts travel...
Other aspects of the production left more to be desired than the acting. Donald Soule's set looked just a little bit uglier than the depressing Medieval court he intended to suggest; and Joseph Raposo's incidental music was indistinguishable from all the uninspired incidental music ever written. Make-up that was more lurid and costumes that hampered less would also have helped...
...unexpected is the sort of debt last week's rioters owe the Cambridge City Police. For these gentlemen--many called in from their off-time--conducted themselves throughout both evenings with restraint, and their good sense and equally good nature kept the riot from developing into something far uglier than what it was: undergraduates revelling in spring and the diploma issue...
...program looked deep into the eyes of settlers, cowboys. Indians, Westerners of all conditions. With sure irony, it demolished the legends perpetuated on endless TV westerns as it showed the fabled desperadoes as greasy punks, the heroic sheriffs as smalltime officeholders, and the beautiful dance-hall girls a lot uglier than sin. It recalled the West's real life as well as its real death; one memorable picture showed a corpse so riddled with bullets that it looked-making the Bat Masterson kind of tough talk come true-like a sieve. Ranging over more than 300 still pictures...
Better in Gingham. But in India, even the Western bride's protective coloration was coming under fire. In the Times of India, Columnist Amita Malik recently launched a cutting campaign against foreigners in saris. "If there is anything uglier than an Indian matron in bulging jeans," she snapped, "it is a white woman, tall, angular and with straw-colored hair, wearing a Dacca sari Foreign wives fondly imagine that they look beautiful in saris, when they would look miles better in gingham...