Word: vile
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...Like Humphrey Bogart, Widmark started in movies as a thug and only gradually graduated to hero status. He was a murderously jealous cafe owner in Road House and a racist punk, spilling out vile epithets to noble young black doctor Sidney Poitier, in No Way Out (where he has a wonderfully sniveling final scene). Sam Fuller cast him as the pickpocket in the memorably lurid Pickup on South Street. Sometimes he was the lowlife who found someone even lower, as in Don't Bother to Knock, where he gets tangled with crazed babysitter Marilyn Monroe...
...most vile expressions of humanity ever,” he said. “Sure they have self-esteem, because they fit in with other fools...
...crowd on topics from evolution—“It’s against the Bible, and it doesn’t conform to science as we know it”—to the crowd’s favorite, homosexuality—“the vile affection of a reprobate mind.” The young woman handing out fliers admitted to me that she didn’t particularly enjoy all the negativity and rejection, but that “when you love someone, you will do anything to keep them from burning in Hell...
...Hitchens is on more solid ground when he attacks Graham for his comments about Jews in a 1972 Oval Office meeting with Richard Nixon. That conversation was indeed vile, and since it was disclosed in 2002, Graham has apologized repeatedly for his part in it. "I cannot imagine what caused me to make those comments, which I totally repudiate," he said. "Whatever the reason, I was wrong for not disagreeing with the President ... I don't ever recall having those feelings about any group, especially the Jews, and I certainly do not have them now." When we asked Graham about...
...best in Nixon--and times as well when Nixon brought out the worst in Graham, most notoriously in the hideous February 1972 conversation in which Nixon went on about how the Jews who controlled the media were destroying the country and Graham went along. It was an exchange so vile, it raised the legitimate question of what exactly a President would have to do for Graham to stop consoling and begin confronting him on moral grounds. "I did misjudge him," Graham told us, and the pain of what he had said in the rarefied air of the Oval Office clearly...