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While many consumers still live in segregated neighborhoods, integrated ads have become the height of hipness. Reason: they have a sophisticated, global- village look. "Advertisers don't want to insult people's intelligence. They are reflecting how the world is," says James Patterson, chief executive of the ad agency J. Walter Thompson USA. If an ad features nothing but a herd of Caucasians, it can appear dated and stiff. The inclusion of a lone minority-group member has a similar effect. Says Ron Anderson, vice chairman of the Bozell ad agency: "Ten or 15 years ago, there was a sense...
...woman is intelligent--and, worse, refuses to lay aside her intellect in worshipful reverence for the male ego--she should be immediately put in her place. How? Of course--deprecate her appearance! Call her not only ugly, but also give her the scarlet brand, the ultimate insult--call her "fat," as many did in response to her initial sarcastic dismissal of "Ollie," the prototypical Harvard Man--which is not only ludious, but is also illustrative of the attitude that appearance, and especially ideal body weight, is a key determinant of value in a woman...
Believing that the main event may be over, Fukuyama depicts whatever troubles lie ahead as little more than nuisances, devoid of ideological content and context, therefore lacking historical standing. That notion adds insult to the injuries of the masses starving in Africa and Asia, the basement dwellers of Beirut and the victims of narco-terror in Latin America. While the prospects for capitalism and democracy may look pretty good from Japan, Italy, Holland and France, where translations of Fukuyama's article will soon appear, they are less bright in places like Peru and Bangladesh -- and even Mexico and Israel...
...insult to injury, it was a Harvard Law School dean who maneuvered the proposal past the city's legal defenses and onto the ballot. City councillors declared a war of words against Harvard when Dean James M. Landis, head of the Cambridge Committee for Plan E, helped force the proposal onto Cambridge's November 1938 ballot...
This chant used homosexuality as a stigmatized insult, hinging on the "macho" image spectators associate with male athletes. These spectators view homosexuality as the antithesis of masculinity, and--although they assumed that D'Alessio was not gay--chose to attack his athletic ability by questioning his heterosexuality...