Word: vileness
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...more militant feminists dropped plastic bags filled with animal blood outside the capitol and scrawled the names of prominent ERA opponents in the fluid. Nine women were arrested and led away in handcuffs. Republican Governor James Thompson, whose tepid support of the ERA angered proponents, termed the blood smearing "vile and disgusting" and likened it to "painting swastikas on synagogues...
...nonaligned" countries signed a document criticizing the U.S. for, among other things, "aggression," after a pair of U.S. Navy jets shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sidra, Kirkpatrick lashed out with a letter accusing them of what she called "absurd and erroneous charges" and "fabrications and vile at tacks." The upshot was that countries planning to criticize the document decided to keep silent, for fear of appearing to side with the U.S. Says a former U.S. official: "She practices diplomacy by insult...
...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...