Word: insultingly
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...gestures to the audience. A grinning, phosphorescent-suited fellow who plays with funny balloon animals. A comic with a bag over his head who does a ventriloquist routine featuring a hand puppet that has a paper bag over its head. A talk-show host who is all smarm and insult jokes. A Carnegie Hall entertainer who shows cartoons, leads sing-alongs and wrestles with women volunteers from the audience. A female comic in Wayne Newton drag who unbuttons her shirt to reveal a forest of chest hair...
...conducting a transcontinental affair on the side - that you are likely to wonder, "Does this guy realize how unlikable he is?" It is at this moment that Brooks' strategy has succeeded. He has made you more profoundly ill at ease than Don Rickles ever could. Insult comics merely try to focus hostility; Brooks is after something more insidious: the moral squirm...
Mitterrand was quick to retaliate. Accusing Giscard of "verbal violence," the Socialist leader turned a campaign appearance in Nevers into a fuming Marxist defense. "Don't insult [leftist voters] who want to live in freedom from the anguish of unemployment!" he challenged, addressing Giscard. Preying on the President's upper-class background and aristocratic style, Mitterrand went on: "I remind Monsieur Giscard d'Estaing that the people conquered freedom almost two centuries ago against the old feudal or der, and against the feudalism of money, and that the people are fighting for free dom today against...
...recurrent image of flying geese in formation-a sinister symbol of emigration from China. Furthermore, it said, the gloomy picture that Unrequited Love drew of the Cultural Revolution besmirched the party's leadership. Said the commentary: "Criticizing mistakes of the party is not patriotism, but an insult to patriotism. The film gives the impression that one could feel some warmth for the old society, while pain and tragedy are everywhere in the new socialist China...
...tell him Satan is a man he'll think it an insult...