Word: unpleasanter
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When The Way of the World was first presented in 1700 it was poorly received. It is supposed to have been to , better read than seen. Perhaps so. I think an age that found it necessary to give Shakespeare's tragedies happy endings more likely had difficulty appreciating the "high...
For a while, it all seemed an unpleasant but harmless game, since the vast majority of the victims got home unscathed. But in two grisly cases last year, one victim was raped and murdered, and no trace has ever been found of the other. Clumsy police work encouraged cries for...
Precisely because the court has shorn obscenity of constitutional protection, it feels duty-bound to deal individually with all such cases that reach it. And however objective it tries to be, the court is mired in what Justice Brennan calls "a difficult, recurring and unpleasant task"-setting a national moral...
Horses are the victims of a botfly that lays its eggs on their legs, and sheep are the prey of another kind of botfly that lays its eggs in their noses. The eggs hatch into maggots which mature in the animals' bodies causing severe illness and sometimes death. So...
The only seemingly sympathetic person in this thoroughly unpleasant book is Harlow's agent, Arthur Landau, who appears as the tormented girl's friend, confidant, moneylender, sometime savior and sole defender. Don't be fooled. Landau, now 76 and living in Hollywood, is the one who spilled...