Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOST DEPLORABLE SUCCESS: Laverne & Shirley (ABC), a deliberate insult to some of our nation's most estimable citizens...
SWISS PAINTING by Florens Deuchler, Marcel Roethlisberger and Hans Lüthy. 198 pages. Skira/Rizzoli. $45. One calumny on Switzerland runs that 500 years of democracy produced the cuckoo clock. Naturally, the three Swiss academicians who produced this book dispute the insult. They also show some indecision about whether there is such a thing as Swiss art, as opposed to art that happened to be created in Switzerland. The country never fostered the influential art centers that flourished in Italy and France. It did give birth to at least two masters-Holbein and Fuseli. This volume includes them but concentrates...
...stance to abstention, but it should have gone further and moved for admission. If the U.N. is to be a viable force in international relations, it must include every independent nation, regardless of political alliances. The U.S. refusal to recognize Angola's sovereignty must be construed as an insult to President Neto and the members of the Popular Movement who fought for Angola's freedom, and is unlikely to improve relations between the U.S. and the third world nations...
...when that idea flops he resorts to a man in a gorilla suit. At the risk of denigrating the obvious care and hard work that De Laurentiis' technicians have put in, I must say that to have a stunt man cavorting about in a Halloween costume is an insult to Willis O'Brien and the Kong he gave...
...months were necessary. Both sides had rejected Chairman Ivor Richard's compromise proposal of a 15-month transition. Meanwhile, Smith had flown back to Salisbury on Nov. 3, declaring he could not afford to waste time sitting around Geneva "twiddling my thumbs." In what seemed a calculated insult to the blacks, he left negotiations for his government in the hands of Rhodesia's sarcastic and hard-lining Foreign Minister, Pieter van der Byl. By last week, it was becoming increasingly clear that unless there is some progress soon, the conference could well collapse...