Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose favorite outfit is a pair of underpants, is the kind of detective who could lose a suspect in a phone booth. He gets out of breath cutting corners, hasn't enough hair to make a wig for a grape, and cowers before any weapon larger than an insult. Nevertheless, in accordance with the rules of soft-core pornography, he attempts to be Casanova in Jockey shorts. On the trail of an anonymous killer, Jake samples a smorgasbord of tarts, including a Lib wom-mannekin (Pamela Gruen) with the voice of a burglar, some spaced-out chippies and hookers...
...only thing dumber than a New York City taxicab driver is someone who would print any remark that a New York City cab driver makes on any subject other than how best to insult or vilify his customers. Remarks by cab drivers concerning the mayor are out of place in a national magazine. New York cab drivers are a burden that can be borne only by New Yorkers. No other city would put up with these morons...
...Moslem act of faith, which begins "La lllaha ilia Allah" (There is no God but God) just before they died. Then the crack of rifle fire, the angry shouts of onlookers. Before the picture returned, the witnesses spat on the crumpled bodies of the rebels-the ultimate Arab insult...
...done." ··· When Comedian Don Rickles took up a two-week gig at Lake Tahoe, he decided to try his hand at tennis. Rickles, 45, tried to master the game, until felled by a torn ankle tendon. Into the hospital he went, suffering too much even to insult the surgeon, and into his place went Singer Robert Goulet to take over the show. Said Goulet: "Don tripped over his tongue on the tennis court." ··· "Business and money are no longer my gods," said a chastened Billie Sol Estes as the gates of Leavenworth closed behind...
...possible -we became smoke and ashes." And all those who returned are, in Kaniuk's idiosyncratically mordant view, insane. During the day they live well. They are allowed to work, make money, build houses, enjoy the illusion of progress. But at night they have nightmares and cry. "The insult scorches," the author explains. The knowledge, the final realization that they were "simply raw material in the most advanced factory of Europe, under a sky inhabited by God in exile, this information drives us crazy. Such humiliation! So we have turned this country into the largest insane asylum on earth...