Word: viles
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Goebbels' petty scorn spares practically none of his colleagues. But his most vile language is aimed at the Jews, especially after he learns that some of them have been given public posts in Allied-occupied parts of Germany. He snarls: "Anyone in a position to do so should kill these Jews off like rats. In Germany, thank God, we have already done a fairly complete job. I trust that the world will take its cue from this...
...Pistols' unwonted decorum may have been imposed by the presence out front of the Atlanta vice squad. After all, the Pistols had caused a scandal on British TV a year ago with their vile language. They had been fired by two record companies, locked out by most of Britain's major rock clubs and concert halls, reviled for a song calling the Queen a moron during the Silver Jubilee celebration and castigated nearly everywhere for their world-class grossness. Just two weeks ago, in fact, their entry into the U.S. had been temporarily denied-and four concerts canceled...
...rest are sadists, masochists, sneaks, morons, arrested adolescents, vile companions for a two-hour journey. Aldrich has shot them all in a harsh, flat light that matches his essentially pornographic spirit, and he has directed without nu ance, jerking the movie to fitful life with occasional shocks - a beating here, a mur der there, over in the corner some sick...
Best Look at an Old Face: Jason Robards' portrayal of a vile President, Richard Monckton, a dead ringer for Richard Nixon, in ABC's Washington: Behind Closed Doors...
Since Waugh's own death, his reputation has been skillfully embalmed by the Joyboys of journalism and lit-crit. More precisely, there are two reputations: the artist and the man. Waugh the writer needs little touching up. Such novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Scoop and that masterpiece of World War II, the Sword of Honour trilogy, established him as one of the century's finest satirists. The Diaries underscore just how closely Waugh's fiction followed his life, from high jinks at public school to the hallucinations chronicled...