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...years in the highlands of north Uganda with a very different group of natives, called the Ik, Turnbull seems pursued by an equally simple but opposite conviction. The Ik, in Turnbull's description, are a paradigm of human nastiness. Their habits, he says, it "would be an insult to animals to call bestiality." By the end of this book the author's repulsion clots into hatred, in a crescendo of extraordinary statements: "Luckily the Ik are not numerous-about 2,000-and those two years reduced their number greatly. So I am hopeful that their isolation will remain...
...Candid Camera itself often cruel?) Reducing Sally to emotional trauma several times as a vehicle for parody is a good example of such pitilessness. The film's last scene, in which her attempt to kill the faithless Joey evokes only audience guffaws as the gun fails to shoot, adds insult to injury; this is the major emotional crisis of Sally's life, and Morrissey turns it into a farce. Likewise, the constant use of the Motel Lady's physical ugliness as a stimulus to laughter is on a level with the playground viciousness young children often direct towards the physically...
...accusing Edmund Muskie of a racial slur against French Canadians may have been written by Ken W. Clawson, deputy director of White House communications. A Post reporter, Marilyn Berger, claimed that Clawson told her that he had written the note, which said Muskie had condoned the epithet "Canuck," an insult to New England's French Canadians. The letter, published over the signature of a "Paul Morrison" in the Union Leader, helped to precipitate Muskie's famous "crying speech," when the candidate shed indignant tears and thus damaged his image of stability. Clawson last week declared: "I know nothing...
...guards and motels for visitors. It was, residents often said, like "leading the pig into the parlor." Architects, historical societies and garden clubs bombarded state and federal officials with indignant letters. If the prison were built, said one, it would be "an affront to the past and an insult to the future." The area around such important houses as Boswell's Tavern, a supposed haunt of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Patrick Henry, required protection and preservation...
Professor Seymour Lipset's statement that "McGovern's early supporters were attracted to him over the sex business, abortion and marriuans is insulting and just plain ridiculous. Perhaps I upset feels guilty and would like to forget about the war in Indochina. Surely you don't have to be a genius or even a Harvard professor to remember the days when McGovern was criticized for being a one user candidate, "Was that issue sex? abortion? manjuana? Even Seymour Lipset must be aware that Senator McGovern's early support was based mainly in his strong opposition to the war in Indochina...