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Word: perverted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over there, across the park, one saw the works of Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka and others. The viewer could imagine what demons stood behind them: the creeping Jew, the scheming Bolshevik, the Negro with his thick lips and saxophone, the slavering pervert. In here it was all David and the Apollo Belvedere, noble simplicity and calm grandeur as $ interpreted by such heirs of Michelangelo and Polyclitus as Hitler's favorite sculptor Arno Breker and his court painter Adolf Ziegler. What kind of Germany, the two shows asked, do you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Culture On the Nazi Pillory | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

Even The Lobby is under siege. A cascade of anti-AIPAC scholarship has chronicled the alleged power of pro-Israeli special interests to pervert the American national interest. Political action committees in general are under attack by politicians from both parties (AIPAC is not a PAC, but it controls an impressive array of PACs). And while The Lobby has always found its most receptive audience in Congress, the legislative branch's ability and willingness to influence American foreign policy is in rapid decline. Congress may still be browbeaten into large aid packages, but an executive branch less susceptible to AIPAC...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: A Scary Situation | 2/7/1991 | See Source »

...down with any person, white, black or Oriental, and talk about it." Metzger's easygoing cracker-barrel manner in Portland is belied by the angry messages he tapes for WAR telephone lines. There he calls nonwhites "mud people" and "assorted scum"; attorney Dees is "Morris the pervert"; trial judge Ancer L. Haggerty, who is black, is an "Uncle Tom"; and the trial, says Metzger, is a "legal lynching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Making War on WAR | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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