Word: perverted
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...novelist Anthony Burgess used it in A Clockwork Orange as the favorite piece of his ultraviolent antihero. If someone titles an art movie Happiness, it is a good bet that it will be--as the 1998 Todd Solondz film was--about deeply unhappy people, including a telephone pervert and a pedophile...
...high regard for that symbol. U.S. laws, he was surprised to find, prohibit use of the flag for ornamentation. So when he once looked for a box of candy with a flag on it to send to his mother in Britain, storekeepers regarded him as 'some kind of pervert...
...tragic that in exercising their right to vote, the Spaniards have given new life to a monster [March 29]. The terrorists have the skill to pervert free speech and democracy for their own aims--proof again that we must never underestimate them. DUNCAN RUSSELL Greensboro...
...been pounded by a group called SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, formed in November 1999 with one aim: to close down HLS. The group has identified and harassed HLS executives, employees, shareholders, suppliers and partners through telephone, fax and e-mail onslaughts. The SHAC attackers scream "murderer," "pervert" and "torturer" during demonstrations outside HLS's gates. They beat drums and screech on plastic whistles at "home demos" (protests outside the residences of company directors and employees). They mount "invasions" of firms doing business with HLS and industry conferences attended by representatives of HLS and its affiliates. In early...
...Christian, I was upset that Boykin invoked the name of God to support his militaristic agenda. I can empathize with moderate Muslims who are revolted by the extremists within their communities who pervert sacred Islamic writings to justify hate and violence. JAMES N. FOSTER Herkimer...