Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, will try a variety hour for NBC titled The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. The format includes a twist: in one segment each week, she will interview a celebrity. But the real get-the-guest free-for-all should be ABC's Don Rickles Show. Rickles, the insult comic, will knock off a guest or two per weekly half-hour. ABC will also try TV's first weekly book musical, That's Life. For continuity, the one-hour show will have a regular star, Robert Morse, and a continuing theme, modern marriage...
Craig Claiborne, New York Times food critic, made the rounds of Miami's restaurants and found their cuisine good for laughs but not for digestion. Affronting his gourmet tastes at one restaurant was a mousse au chocolat crowned with whipped cream and as a final insult, perhaps, a maraschino cherry. At another establishment, Claiborne complained that a wedge of Camembert cheese had been served cold. The waiter offered to "run it under the broiler." "Now I ask you," wrote the exasperated critic, "isn't that worth the price of the meal...
...films were two years in the making and cost an estimated $300,000. Even so, one ad in the series had to be junked. Some Negro viewers, led by Comedian Dick Gregory, complained that the film showing five white Platformate cars outdistancing five black cars was a demeaning insult. Nowadays, Shell is phasing out its endurance-test ads and, like most of its competitors, is running coupon contests...
...paid a Russian terrorist named Boris Savinkov 200,000 rubles (then worth some $10,000) to kill Lenin. Masaryk's memory is enjoying a fresh outpouring of honor and homage in the wave of current reform, and Czechoslovakia's press reacted angrily to the Soviet charge. "An insult without parallel," said the newspaper Práce. Lidová Demokracie called the story "a gross falsification of our history" and "slander...
Jean or Jack, can insult our people and call them cowardly." If the talks reach a second stage, Ky is scheduled to head the South's delegation?which can hardly be a comforting thought to the U.S. For the time being, Saigon will send as many as 20 "observers...