Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Late Show $100,000. She estimates her annual income at $200,000. Partly out of caution, partly out of preference, she lives modestly. She and her crew of three or four travel economy class-"I could afford first, but it seems to me to be an insult to my family and the life we've known...
...Bernstein offers us no special reason to care, the characters remain cardboard stereotypes and their situation all too familiar banality. Bernstein's inability to musically activate this trite scenario becomes obvious at the climax, when the characters lapse into speech. If husband and wife had sung these commonplaces of insult and apology, it would have been laughable; their situation doesn't warrant the dignity of music. Even "Island Magic," the cheap illusions of a Technicolor movie, which Bernstein invokes to resolve the couple's muddle (it doesn't deserve to be called dramatic conflict) can't pull off the trick...
...when the Living Newspaper put out the sign for the skit "Sexism in the Schools," in which the "x" in "sexism" was represented by a swastika, it was an insult to thoughtful social analysis. The left makes far too much use of such facile, irrelevant references to fascism. Turning x's into swastikas may make good graffiti, but it's lousy politics...
...injury to insult Williams went down in the opening minutes of the game with a knee injury of unknown severity, and spent the rest of the contest on the sidelines...
Perhaps Jimmy Carter should read history instead of the Bible. As Henry Clay put it in 1818, all religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All separated from government are compatible with liberty. The Inauguration was an insult to secular America...