Word: ugliest
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...ugliest political brawl since the Jefferson-Adams presidential campaign--MELISSA GILBERT vs. VALERIE HARPER for the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild--is being contested owing to a ballot-instruction technicality. Gilbert's surprise victory culminates a campaign in which Harper, who ran on the Actors Moving Forward slate, refused to debate Gilbert, of the Restore Respect party. Harper sent out a mailing disclosing that Gilbert was a scab in a 1989 movie; Gilbert was forced to send out an e-mail explaining why she was too busy to appear at SAG strike events last year (birthday parties, dying...
...attended many of the project meetings last year, circulated a Norman Mailer quote amongst the artists which says, “[The Holyoke Center] expresses a style in architecture known as brutalism, which is unfinished grey concrete. That building is one of the six ugliest buildings in the United States...
...Many of you felt that Bob Kerrey's treatment at the hands of the news media was the ugliest aspect of the controversy surrounding his confession. "American journalism has hit an all-time low," wrote a Florida woman. "Reporters who hoped to 'hit it big' with this story only exhibited their ignorance of history and war." A New Jerseyan shared her disgust and was "taken aback by the arrogance and superior attitude of the press. Your need to know everything gives you no right to eviscerate Kerrey. How dare you?" A Louisiana man who served in the military believes that...
...most countries, such vitriol would signal the ugliest of scandals, perhaps involving choirboys. Father Ly's crime? Challenging the government. Last month, the priest sent a letter to U.S.Congressmen urging them to reject ratification of a bilateral trade agreement until Vietnam grants greater freedom of worship. Hanoi's retaliation against Father Ly was swift, but it may be backfiring and could dim chances for the treaty's ratification. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives' powerful International Relations Committee have vowed to bring up the issue in hearings that could start as early as next month. The action against Father...
Imagine if each title Harvard has ever won had its own banner. Bright already is one of the ugliest arenas in the conference; seeing the sea of championships the Crimson has won would only add to the dungeon-like quality of the place...