Word: squeamish
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Prophylactics manufacturers, whose sales are expected to jump by 10%, to $110 million this year, contend that their ads promote not promiscuity but responsible sexual practices. TV viewers may be ready to agree. Harriette Robinet, 55, of Oak Park, Ill., admits that she is "squeamish" about the idea of condom ads on prime time but thinks today's young adults need the information. Says she: "It's all very pathetic, but it's necessary...
...seems that Miss Grossman's main objection is a common one: the sight of Mexicans working as servants and in other lowly positions makes her squeamish and uncomfortable. Perhaps she would prefer that the workers simply "go away," so their presence will not offend her liberal sensitivities. Miss Grossman does not realize that what for her is a source of irritation is for the Mexican worker a means, often the only means of survival. To stay "out of sight and out of mind" in Mexico would probably mean remaining unemployed, or at best accepting work at much lower...
PETER GORDON: Innocent (CBS). JOHN ZORN: The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone (Nonesuch/Icon). Not for the squeamish -- or at least not for those who think serious music is something best carried on quietly by consenting adults in the privacy of a concert hall. Gordon, 35, and Zorn, 33, are both members of Manhattan's explosive avant-garde art-rock scene, reveling in hot-wired Farfisas, electric guitars, saxophones and synthesizers. But, as David Byrne says, this ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around. Gordon's Innocent...
FORTUNATELY for the squeamish reader, France is also the perfume capital of the world, and as Grenouille becomes an apprentice at a renonwned parfumerie, we are introduced to the more palattable scents of orange blossom, jasmine, clove, and attar of roses...
...LIGHT OF reports of widespread atrocities committed by the Contras, conservatives should be squeamish, not sanguine, about the Contras' behavior. Supporting the Contras requires a vast desensitization to knowledge of their nature, which can lead to a further deadening of our better judgment and civil sensibility in other areas of social policy...