Word: vileness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regular newsletters, all bearing the message COPY AND PASS ALONG, because most copying equipment has been confiscated. One appeal from an unnamed member of Solidarity's national commission urged on the resistance and said, "Let us not forget that 'every nation can lose, but only the most vile ones surrender.' " Though most union leaders, including Solidarity Chairman Lech Walesa, are in government custody, a number of prominent Solidarity figures remain at large. Among them: Zbigniew Bujak, the Warsaw regional leader; Bogdan Lis, a former Walesa deputy; Zbigniew Janas, union leader at the Ursus factory. In an underground...
...killers of Christ and thus an accursed people, so detestable that the usual inscription over the crucified Savior's head, "King of the Jews," appears as "King of the Confessors." If ever one needed proof that a work of art can be both aesthetically ravishing and morally vile, the cross supplies...
...hard to say whether S.O.B. will be a meaningful comic experience outside the L.A.-N.Y. show-biz axis, but it is full of the splendid physical comedy that is Director Edwards' specialty. And besides, most of the movie types he so viciously caricatures are portrayed with high, vile spirits by the likes of Robert Preston, Larry Hagman, Robert Vaughn and Robert Webber, the meanest-looking crew since the Wild Bunch bit the dust. Edwards occasionally strays too far inside for his own good, lapsing from parodies of bad taste into the genuine article. But his work has pace...
...summer at Cornell was full of such bizarre characters. There was the Rodent--one of the most vile and obnoxious creatures ever to crawl the streets of Ithaca. He wore the same football jersey torn at the letters to every class enabling him to examine his bellybutton at leisure. There was Greek the gambler: Captain kirk the pinball wizard: and his roommate Studly the womanizer. There was the Mad Typist who lived down the hall from my dingy basement cell never slept and ingested a dozen No-Doz daily and Howard Machine the visiting professor from Britain who never really...
...Cybill Shepard; but for the pristine campaign worker, Scorsese has substituted a passive, pliable coital robot. And it all ends with LaMotta, less than glorious in his heydey, the Raging Whale, even painful to look at, unable to get around his titanic belly to hug his brother. Everything is vile, and the only relief is vapidity...