Word: insult
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...Fair Lady [1964]. An insult to Shaw, Lerner, Loewe and Julie Andrews. Ch. 4, 9 p.m. color, 2 hours...
...role as a national police force. In one remarkable slight to the professional military, Shanghai's model militia force was pa raded before a group of the city's top political leaders; incredibly, the local P.L.A. garrison commander was not even invited to the event. Returning the insult, a majority of P.L.A. regional commanders, in what looks like an act of open insubordination, reportedly refused to attend a meeting called by Peking's central leadership...
...ought to be the top-rated comedy of the year. It will join-perhaps for the last time-two of the prettiest, wittiest comics in Hollywood. Mary can wrap an insult in velvet and put down a lover so gently that he never knows what happened until he wakes up on the sidewalk outside her apartment. Valerie can sketch a character with a series of straight lines and give an audience a solid minute of funny faces-without spilling a grain of makeup or a scintilla of style...
...anything that would flow from the West here except perhaps for some things that we think are wrong, things of a moral nature, such as drugs, etc. For example, what would happen if several thousand streakers decided to come to Warsaw and run naked here? That would be an insult to our morality. I am not sure that the Catholic faithful here in Poland, of whom there are a great number, would not beat these people...
...department were so many examples of "basketweaving." For this slander and others too numerous to mention, his appointment to the board of the DuBois Institute would be objectionable even if he refrained from contributing. His appointment is an affront to the honor of DuBois's name, an insult to the Black community, in general, and a slap in the face to the entire faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department. It is hard to conceive of a more inappropriate choice...