Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, and the State of the Union speech will nod to big goals. But when it comes to fresh and concrete ideas, the list of what Bush will actually try to accomplish in 2006 is so modest that one bewildered Republican adviser calls it "an insult to incrementalism...
When the Sept. 11 memorial design was unveiled this fall for Flight 93's crash site in Pennsylvania, LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS and other conservatives decried it as a "monumental insult," largely because the crescent of red maple trees resembled an Islamic prayer station, pointing toward Mecca. Some critics tipped their hats last week at the bowl-shaped redesign, above, until ERROR THEORY pointed out that the "Islamo-fascist shrine ... still contains all of the features that made it a terrorist memorial." One element that was retained: the flight path lined with 44 translucent blocks, one for each person who died...
...best work. Plympton’s animation is a frustratingly literal rendition of Kanye’s lyrics: West’s stream-of-conscious verses are dutifully translated into cartoon vignettes, but the gonzo flourishes that characterize Plympton’s style are lamentably absent. Adding insult to injury, the animated portions of the video are interspersed with even blander live-action footage of Kanye and accompanying singer Adam Levine (of Maroon 5 infamy) delivering lackluster vocal performances before a bare white background. The most likely source of the video’s mediocrity is a creative power struggle...
...think you certainly have people who are flying it during game day to insult other people, which is wrong,” says Ethan J. Guagliardo, an LSU senior. “Other people actually feel a southern identity, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing...
...Brown,” adding that “liberal administrators do not make judgments about behavior. Therefore any and all behavior that stops short of violence is permissible on many college campuses.” President Simmons declined to comment, but in the resolution, the UCS called these insults “unwarranted, unnecessary and offensive.”Later in the show, O’Reilly said that students “would have been safer in Baghdad than on the campus of Brown University.”Zachary A. Townsend, UCS admissions and student services chair, said...