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...Bert Englebert Award, a joke award initiated five years ago, was given to Goodenow. The award, which one fan called "possibly the ugliest and most useless trophy ever devised," shows a hockey player wearing rolling skates and set to take a slap shot even though he has no stick...
...perfectly legitimate middle-class aesthetic, critics have dubbed Venturi the "Nixonite" of architecture. Yet however attractive he might make the strip appear in a book whose layout is so elaborate that the price can be no lower than $25, the strip without a doubt still represents one of the ugliest environments that has ever existed. It is easy for Venturi to avoid questions such as why acres of landscape have to be covered with asphalt for parking lots, why the construction of such enormous signs as overt displays of competition for the consumer's money, and why such dependence...
...Child beating, one of the ugliest crimes, is difficult to prove, difficult to prosecute. In many states doctors are legally required to report suspected abuses, but they rarely do. A recent case in California may change this situation...
...DOCUMENTARY'S only villain is Premier Pierre Laval. His personal behavior casts him as such in the film's context of what is ugliest about the French: their anti-Semitism. They embraced the ideology of race purity using stricter criteria than the Nuremberg laws. Newspapers blamed France's defeat on "foreign elements." Doctors used the Gestapo to rid themselves of Jewish competitors. In the cinemas films played like The Jew Suss, which warned against interbreeding. Especially distressing is a newsreel of the memorialization of France's first anti-Semitic "authority" coupled with views of a touring exhibit...
Boston Garden is the second ugliest empty building in the city. (The ugliest is the Boston Arena, home of high school hockey and Boston's seamier wrestling shows.) The Garden has bad acoustics, bad atmosphere, a consistent tendency to trap smoke, exposed rafters, and uncomfortable chairs. It also has more seats than most promoters can handle. Which is why there is an alert group standing by the press gate on Monday evening. Because on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the Rolling Stones will fill the cavern with people, mostly young...