Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jail. Still, in spite of stiff official resistance, the Sunday Times managed to publish uncensored excerpts from the diaries of Richard Crossman, a former Cabinet minister. The paper also exposed the important position that Kim Philby had held in British intelligence before he defected to Moscow. Evans chanced contempt of court by publicizing the plight of Britain's some 450 Thalidomide children, afflicted with terrible birth defects because their mothers had taken the medicine during pregnancy. Litigation between parents and the drug's manufacturer had dragged on for a decade, in legally ordained secrecy. Evans' campaign spurred...
...calculated effects, which work well when she is playing self-consciously intelligent women. But interpreting a character who abandoned three children, shares a house with a rather shiftless boyfriend and a lesbian (Kurt Russell and Cher, both of whom are easier and more naturalistic performers) and shows her contempt for Authority by flashing a bare breast at its representative, she seems at once forced and pulled back...
...Geneva, even Kvitsinsky scoffed at the notion that the British and French forces were any match for the SS-20s; comparing them was, he said, "a sandbox exercise." Nitze noted wryly that Kvitsinsky's apparent contempt for the British and French weapons negated the Soviets' own argument for counting them in an agreement. In another unguarded but revealing moment, Kvitsinsky blurted out the real purpose of the Soviet position: "You have no business in Europe...
...when Emma moves out, Aurora discovers that her child has no corner on inappropriate males. After Flap takes a job in Des Moines ("You can't even fail locally," cries Aurora, whose contempt for her son-in-law is her one immutable, hilarious quality), a plaintive note creeps into her obsessive phone calls to her daughter. Parent is now becoming a dependent, in need of a confidante, especially with that astronaut orbiting around...
Last, but perhaps most relevant for our time, would be the argument of some feminists that pornography incites contempt for women and thereby encourages men to exploit and abuse them, as Paul Snider did Dorothy. The correlation (and presumed casual relationship) between media representation of women and their mistreatment has been a prevailing feminist maxim for so long that it has assumed the aura of fact in some circles. Since the '60s there has been an open and often heated debate between people who are fearful of the deleterious effects of erotica and pornography on society and those...