Word: insultable
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...been buying his records and believing in them for years; he does not belong to his fans, after all, and if he wanted to have a Princeton diploma to hang on his wall, no one had any right to feel betrayed. In contrast, issuing "Self Portrait" was a direct insult...
Meanwhile, the preliminary performer was getting shit from the eager Bobby Sherman audience. He was singing folk songs, and the fans didn't go for it. There were persistent chants of "We want Bobby!" Imgine the insult. Here you are playing second to Bobby Sherman and you're getting shouted down. Shouted down in a Dorchester accent even. It came time for him to go, and he said a deathly cold "Goodnight" and disappeared. The fans cheered wildly...
...death of his wife in 1938. It describes without malice or apparent prejudice several incidents which indicate that Frost was not a benign simple rustic writing pure-hearted doggerel, but rather an impatient, frequently lazy, hyperbolic man. The reviewers were furious. Some treated the book as a personal insult. One almost-yellow journal reduced its reaction to a sixteen-point print blare, "A good poet-but a very...
...look for truth." So he began by saying that as sorry as newspapers are they are in some cases improved over their pasts, then decided that the functions of most reports could easily be accomplished by machines, and ultimately improved the thought by calling us whores. This multiple insult producing no return blows (and even some agreeable chuckles), Mailer lost his fighting balance. He had grown accustomed to audiences that either wildly cheered him or shouted that he could go fuck himself. Now, he appeared nonplussed by an audience regarding him in some dull Rotarian lumpishness: we had heard...
...Ourselves-and I feel suddenly happy, for a while at least, truly part of a movement, less alone. Even Liberation Now doesn't seem all that terrible. Along the sidewalk women wave, raise the V-sign, occasionally a fist; men look puzzled, sometimes hostile. "Fuck you" the most common insult. A little yellow car forces its way down the street, supposedly cleared of traffic; police apologize. I stand for a minute in its path, hoping I guess to stare down the driver. He doesn't look up, and I move...