Word: insultedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter accusing them of what she called "absurd and erroneous charges" and "fabrications and vile at tacks." The upshot was that countries planning to criticize the document decided to keep silent, for fear of appearing to side with the U.S. Says a former U.S. official: "She practices diplomacy by insult...
...York City, Spielberg acquired that most famous of cinematic props, the symbolic sled Rosebud from Orson Welles' masterpiece, Citizen Kane. It was the highest amount of money ever paid for a piece of movie memorabilia, but Spielberg was unfazed. "It would have been an insult," he said, "if it had gone for only $20,000"-the expected price tag. "Rosebud," promises the hot hit-making director, "will go over my typewriter to remind me that quality in movies comes first...
Cooney is unafraid of sentiment. One of his old school friends, Gary Gladstone, sits in a wheelchair. They insult each other merrily all day. When Gladstone goes off to bed, Cooney murmurs: "God, what a fighter he is. Cancer, bone transplants, amputated leg, everything. Do you hear the way he jokes? It's like nothing to him. How much courage can you have...
Versailles suffered other indignities. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the fabled Hall of Mirrors was turned into an infirmary by the invaders; the French avenged the German insult in 1919, when the Allied leaders gathered in the same hall to sign the treaty ending World War I. But by then the palace had been gutted, and the gardens were shabby and overgrown. Visiting the grounds in 1923, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was appalled at the neglect and donated $100,000 for restoration, which included a new roof for the Hall of Mirrors...
...plot of Blithe Spirit is these people chain-drinking and alternating from backhanded compliment to forehanded insult. One can only imagine the shock Coward must have experienced when he opened a playwriting book and learned that plays require forward plot movement and a climax. The plot he has devised to meet these needs has little to recommend it, neatly alternating as it does from either total predictibility to utter unbelievable with very little in between...