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Word: heinousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...remarkable that someone could have perpetrated this heinous crime in full daylight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 10/20/1990 | See Source »

Granted, most heavy metal is heinous. Even I admit that. But every genre contains its large share of unconscionable work. One must really listen to a lot of music, selectively, in order to locate the treasures among the trash, the pieces that move the human soul time and again. Verdi is esteemed the master of opera, but many forget that the majority of his work never gets performed--because even opera fanatics know it to be atrocious. We don't judge Guiseppe on the basis of his many horrendous compositions, but on his masterpieces like La Boheme...

Author: By Joseph Enis, | Title: For God, for Country, And for Metal... | 5/11/1990 | See Source »

...sentimental slag, a "dishrag hoo-er." For him, all romantic encounters hover between mechanical sex and date rape. "So I say to the bitch, 'Lose the bra -- or I'll cut ya.' Is that a wrong attitude?" The obvious answer is yes. Nearly everything he says is wildly heinous. Clay knows this, and so do his fans; their laughter is a release at hearing forbidden thoughts twisted into jokes. Says Leonard R.N. Ashley, an English professor at Brooklyn College: "Because the seven dirty words are in now common usage, there are different standards. The new pornography is violence, often sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

According to the guys across the hall, the term for Radcliffe women has been contemporized to "Heinous Bush...

Author: By Betty Hung, | Title: 'Find A Date? At Harvard?' | 4/28/1990 | See Source »

When I moan about my boyfriend shortage, they are the only ones who sympathize with me. "Buck up, Betty. At least you're not a Heinous Bush Pig, and you're okay to talk...

Author: By Betty Hung, | Title: 'Find A Date? At Harvard?' | 4/28/1990 | See Source »

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