Word: hideously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perceives his life to be in danger, but not when only his personal property seems likely to be stolen. The key question is often what a victim thinks may happen to him rather than what more objective observers may see as the actual danger. "Even if there is some hideous mistake, and no threat really existed, the law entitles you to respond on the basis of your belief," explains Columbia Law Professor Vivian Berger. One common exception to the rule prohibiting deadly force in the defense of property is when someone invades a house. In most states the inhabitant...
...Checkpoint Charlie, the hideous maw of the Berlin Wall gapes briefly, affording a narrow passage into the divided German soul. On its Western side, a sea of sensuous color rushes down the Kurfurstendamm, past the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, and spends itself violently but impotently in a scatological orgy of graffiti against the cold barrier. On the Eastern side, a pall hangs over the city, reflected in the rigorously functional, regimented gray apartment blocks that line the streets. Propelled by the engine of the postwar Wirtschaftswunder, the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany is a sporty blond racing...
...looking at freaks, she now stared. She began to prowl the streets of New York-late at night, when the train stations were "deep, empty, odoriferous-'like pits of hell''' and when the freaks-came out. Soon she became a regular at Hubert's Freak Museum. Staring at the hideous figures, she felt fear run its course through her body and she was determined to conquer...
...abduction and murder of Popieluszko. The bespectacled prosecutor unleashed an almost theatrical fury upon the confessed leader of the priest's killers, former Secret Police Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski. Said Pietrasinski: "Piotrowski is a cold and ruthless murderer, a rascal who used the confidence of his subordinates for a hideous crime...
...surviving "hideous human angels," as Ginsberg calls them, keep in touch. Orlovsky, a former lover and longtime companion, lives across the hall. The Ginsberg apartment is a popular rest stop for old companions passing through New York: "I like to keep the place clean, and it's hard, because I'm not here for months at a time," he says, explaining a sign on his bedroom door that asks guests to remove their shoes. Since 1974 much of his time has been spent at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colo., a college for Buddhist studies where he teaches poetry...