Word: insults
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...that Loesser was as needy as Hutton; nobody could be. A Runyonesque character like the ones he put into Guy and Dolls, he was the classic little guy buoyed by an irrepressible belief in himself. With oceans of vim and a tough demeanor, Loesser was known to insult co-writers and directors and blow his top at rehearsals. He once got so mad at the way Isabel Bigley, Guys and Dolls' original Sister Sara, was mangling one of his songs that he socked her. Yet under the Cagney bully-bravado shone a big heart and the impulse to help other...
...saddest insult in the book is the one levied towards the smart kid, and especially at a place like Harvard, it’s not going to make anyone feel bad. Yeah, we’re smart. Smart is the new cool. Making fun of the smart kid is something that only one person ever does: the dumb...
...long while, taxi drivers are shaking their fists in agreement when the state news comes on. Agreeing that 300 is egregious drivel is fairly easy. I'm relatively mellow as Iranian nationalists go, and even I found myself applauding when the government spokesman described the film as fabrication and insult. Iranians view the Achaemenid empire as a particularly noble page in their history and cannot understand why it has been singled out for such shoddy cinematic treatment, as the populace here perceives it, with the Persians in rags and its Great King practically naked. The Achaemenid kings, who built their...
...nothing more than the progeny of slaves. The black puritanical view turns black people from active agents into helpless targets, and seeks to deny us the ability to look at our condition and interpret it as we will. I've heard nigger used as an honorific, an insult, a verb and even an interjection. I get a warm feeling every time I hear someone come up with a new way to deploy...
...awful loss, we wanted to make a statement.” PRINCETON 5, HARVARD 4 The team’s championship hopes were dashed on Saturday as the team fell to Princeton for the second time this season. After winning a league match on Feb. 11, the Tigers added insult to injury over the weekend by once again defeating the Crimson, this time by a slim margin of 5-4. “The 5-4 match could have gone either way,” coach Satinder Bajwa said. “It’s one of those things...