Word: viciousness
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...line suggests a more cultivated mind, acutely aware of his dramatic presence. Although Beckett's characters are painfully aware of their calculated, verbal chess match, Akalaitis' flail at each other in fits of rage. A more cold-blooded conversation would make Hamm's torture of Clov seem more horrifyingly vicious and his occasional displays of genuine emotion more shockingly pathetic. While the characters should be raw, they need not be barbaric. They need not, as this Hamm does, pee on the floor...
...United States is the most politically backward country in the world," Ture said, calling American culture "bourgeois" and the American political scene "obscene." But he added that "humans have an instinctive love for justice" and will keep fighting for equality until they overcome "vicious capitalist pigs...
...among hepatologists (liver specialists), a generous measure of international prestige. But last spring, when Dr. Howard Spiro, 60, a Yale gastroenterologist, first heard of the Eppinger Prize, his reaction was one of horror. He clearly remembered reading about a pioneering Viennese liver specialist named Hans Eppinger who had planned vicious experiments on inmates of Nazi concentration camps. He recalled that the doctor had committed suicide when summoned to the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunal in 1946. Research showed that the award's namesake and the Nazi physician were the same man, and Spiro launched a protest to publicize the truth...
...government. They added that the refusal of the Israeli government to release key documents, including the disputed appendix, made a fair trial impossible. U.S. District Court Judge Abraham Sofaer denied Time Inc.'s motion. He ruled, however, that one of Sharon's claims, that TIME has a "vicious bias" against Jews or Israel, "is so unsubstantiated that no evidence will be allowed...
...result is a vicious circle: while the FDA can only research the effects of cosmetics which it suspects to cause injuries, few injuries are reported because few consumers suspect that damage has been done by cosmetics. Dermatologists report that last year less than half of those suffering from cosmetic-induced skin diseases suspected cosmetics as a cause...