Word: ugliest
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...pots.) With air soft on the cheek, a boisterous green ocean in view, blazing red bougainvillea at the back, it is suddenly clear what has pulled so many souls to the City of the Angels-a place just as easily perceived, on another day, as one of the ugliest, most unlivable towns in all America...
...painted more than a dozen covers for TIME, the most notable being that of President Lyndon Johnson as 1964's Man of the Year, which Hurd did jointly with his wife. That led to the 1965 commission for Johnson's official portrait, which L.B.J. rejected as "the ugliest thing I ever...
Notebooks 1960-1977 records Fugard's private struggle to become a public artist and to grasp the paradoxes of his troubled land. "South Africa," he notes in 1963, "needs to be loved now, when it is at its ugliest, more than at any other time." Fugard expresses his own love by stubbornly remaining at home, and by using drama as a form of Gandhian nonviolent resistance. That commitment has inevitably entangled him in a series of controversies. When leading British dramatists persist in boycotting South Africa with their plays, Fugard vehemently contends in 1968 that it is better...
...pleasing. But the opposite, or "heads" side, contains no heads at all. It features the bare torsos of a male and a female athlete, apparently standing atop the Los Angeles Coliseum, the principal site of the Games. Sniffed Coin Columnist Ed Reiter: "It is quite possibly one of the ugliest coins in U.S. history...
...over-all negativity, however, prevails. Whether attempts to make the film a little less depressing, or intentional ironies, even the "cheery" touches contribute to the movie's bitter aftertaste. Perturbing rather than entertaining. Harry and Son is a skillful tribute to life and to America at its ugliest...