Chagnon's account of his first encounter with the tribe is legendary: he crept through the low entrance of a shabono, startling a group of Yanomami warriors — the dozen "filthy, hideous men" — who had just concluded a bloody club fight with a neighboring village over the abduction of seven women.
His monograph, "Yanomamö: The Fierce People," which has sold nearly a million copies since it was first published in 1968, established him as a serious scientist in the swashbuckling mode — "I looked up and gasped when I saw a dozen burly, naked, filthy, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their drawn arrows!" — but it also embroiled him in controversy.
Sandler plays the hideous man-child who impregnated his teacher as a kid and is now forced to forge paternal bonds on the eve of his estranged son's nuptials.
Both plays are smart one-acts about revered writers, asking just what kind of hideous men those writers are.
I will pass over the question of diagnosis (it's possible he was not simply depressive) and the question of how such a beautiful human being had come by such vividly intimate knowledge of the thoughts of hideous men.
The columns cracked, the floors splayed, the walls bulged and then burst outward, and a hideous cataract of timber, men, women, working children and iron machines collapsed into a heap of blood and crushing tonnage.
Behind the young family sat an ancient man with a hideous cough and work-hardened hands.
When the MP Stella Creasy received a hideous image of a masked man clutching a knife with the words "I'm gonna be the first thing u see when u wake up", I experienced a lurching realisation that Linah's final experience may have been horribly similar, yet her threats were not splashed across the national news.
For all our efforts, we know that viewers are simply thinking what a hideous coat, who's that man waving in the background, or why has she tucked her hair behind her ears.
