Word: insultingly
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...year after I wrote that piece, I got to read a virtual rewrite of that essay, now entitled "They Flee from Me," in a Lampoon parody of the What. To add insult to injury, a good friend of mind unwittingly complimented me for writing the Lampoon's parody, saying it was the best piece I had ever written. One freshman girl even took the parody so seriously she called me up to complain about...
...having acquired the publishing rights to the Beatles' music, has decided to cash in on it by making it available for corporate commercialization ((SHOW BUSINESS, May 18)). The specter of Jackson's developing a list of "only 40 ((songs)) you'll ever possibly see in an ad" is an insult to rock music...
...President probably meant the old Federal City Club, rendezvous of White House correspondents for hilarity and bad food. After another of those miserable Ziegler briefings, the gang would trudge across Lafayette Square giving the anatomy of Andrew Jackson's rampant bronze horse an insult or two, then pull up in the club dining room and on evil days have a martini, maybe two. About then our natural leader, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, would shout, "Okay, boys, let's cut 'em up." There followed golden hours of bombast, insult, vituperation and disparagement aimed at Presidents, editors, academics, clergymen...
...warning to radio stations about the use of offensive language and material on the air is an insult to the public (NATION, April 27). Americans should be allowed to decide on their own what is indecent. When they are , offended by what they hear, listeners can change the station or turn off the radio...
While many people are into U2 for "deep and meaningful" reasons, most of us just love the sound and the words. Frankly, I am tired of incomprehensible lyrics that end with "oooh, baby." U2 does not insult our intelligence. The band's music makes the hair on my neck stand up and my brain work. That is the best of both worlds, wouldn...