Word: vileness
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...earlier era that A Time to Kill's lovability arises. The film's makers have transferred us back to a more innocent and predictable movie world, a place where good hearts are self-consciously liberal hearts, brimming--O.K., bleeding--with the belief that honorable argument will defeat vile and skulking prejudice. It is, one has to admit, a world of pure fantasy. But it is pretty, and not entirely useless, to think otherwise...
...Profs. Discuss Mideast," (news story, March 20): No fair-minded person would call the event with Messrs. Dershowitz and Peretz, as The Crimson does, a debate. Both speakers are well-known apologists for Israel. While terrorism is vile, and must be condemned by all, the two speakers seem to hold the view that terrorism is innate to Palestinian character or society. Prof. Dershowitz links "the legitimization of terrorism" to the "legitimization of the legitimization of the PLO by the world community." The implication is that the PLO, and by extension, we presume, Palestinians, are the barbarians at the gate...
...pretenses are curiously well matched to those of first-time screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, whose range of literary allusions runs from Dante to Chaucer but whose gift for low-genre necessities--suspense, jeopardy, snappy dialogue--is nonexistent. His big idea is that man is vile and that cities are catch basins for the worst of our fallen breed. He must be very young...
...used the epithet--is a racist who planted the famous bloody glove at Simpson's home in order to frame him. Earlier in the week, with the jury absent, many more excerpts from the tapes were played for a shocked courtroom; spectators heard Fuhrman boast, in unrelentingly vile language, of beating suspects and lying about evidence in earlier cases. However, there was no immediate indication of whether Fuhrman was telling the truth about his exploits, and Ito ruled that the tales largely had no relevance to the Simpson case...
...temperatures dropping to -94 degrees F. The summers are so short that plants rush wildly to take advantage of the brief heat and light. In some parts of Kamchatka, grasses grow up to 3 in. a day. During that season, bugs proliferate and clouds of mosquitoes, dubbed gnusy (the vile ones), can turn brief strolls into interludes with the vampires...