Word: insults
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...demanding director; he'd fire actors and, before the sentence was finished, rehire them. Yet he was as loved as he was respected. Generous and easily weepy, he was also, in Guinness' words, "brilliantly tactless," dropping the brick of an insult that he could make vanish with a blithe demurral. In his 90s, when he might have sat at home with his lover Martin Hensler and his beloved Times crosswords, this old theatrical cat was often on a film set, spinning anecdotes of the legendary actor-managers Henry Irving and Herbert Beerbohm Tree. "When I was young," he said...
...that good manners bring on hardship but that good fortune inspires bad manners). There is even evidence that rudeness may be good for business. Inspired by the success of restaurants and nightclubs at which customers are treated so rudely that they offer the staff bribes to ward off insult, many industries have learned to sell ordinary service as a luxury item. Such marketing concepts as first-class travel, executive floors in hotels, and personal shoppers in stores are based on the idea that decent treatment and efficient service are not what the ordinary customer should expect...
Chemi Whitlow, a Maynard parent on the steering committee, called the process an "insult...
NAME: Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog OCCUPATION: Crudely insulting Conan O'Brien's guests BEST PUNCH: Triumph, who often tells guests they're fit only for him "to poop on," has publicly and colorfully said that Pets.com ripped...
...insult to Drew Carey to note that he can't exactly sing or act. Indeed, that's his appeal. You gotta love the lunky guy, bluffing his way through this new musical version of Pinocchio and acting as if he owns the screen. Surround him with actual singers and actors and require him to emote, and our generosity is tested. But Carey is bolstered by a jovially hammy production, with music composed by Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas). It's testimony to modern adults' pop-psych self-absorption that Disney has recast the story around the puppetmaker dad's parenting issues...