Word: insults
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...flagship American television programs such as Saturday Night Live and the Late Show with David Letterman. He schmoozed with Prince Charles and Gwyneth Paltrow. ("I swore a lot when I met her," Gray says. "I'm a terrible swearer.") For a guy who not long ago had to insult audience members to get them to listen, this sudden stardom is both unfamiliar and intoxicating. "Everything has to change," he says. "I'm sure some fans will say, ?Well, I used to like him when ...' But I'm bloody glad success has come, and in such a brilliant way so that...
...distinctly American idea, that the best kind of rich man is the self-made, Horatio Alger kind - and that goes for the rich man's heirs too. "Old money" no longer has much hold on the American imagination, and "nouveau riche" is no longer an insult (especially among the nouveau not-so-riche). Nobody wants to be like the Europeans anymore, especially since we got so much richer than them. Nobody likes a rich kid. And the dot-com gold rush, however short-lived, only reinforced the idea that America is supposed to be the land of opportunity...
...continue the Jewish national struggle and are more inclined to concede the country's most fundamental values, like control over the Temple Mount, for the sake of peace--and quiet. Or at least, so say Safire and his right-wing chums, who take "peacemonger" as a much stronger insult than "warmonger...
...watch Vinny Testaverde - who at that point was best known as a Heisman Trophy-winning bust whose affinity for throwing to the wrong team was blamed on color-blindness - take control of the team. Modell's decision to move the team to Baltimore was the final insult...
...likely he will migrate toward other destinations. For his sake, this would be a good idea. Sources indicate that the poor fools on Bow Street have already hired cronies to traverse the sea and capture the errant bird, so that he can be resoldered atop the Lampoon Castle. Adding insult to injury, he would be forced to share his old prison with a shoddily constructed, fake plastic imposter...