Word: offendable
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...tapestry of Toomey's narrative. It proceeds almost as a stream-of-consciousness, rambling through the described decades and countries, but always preserving and highlighting the important contrast between the narrator's prurience and the sanctimonious nature of orthodox religion. Burgess seems to have no purpose other than to offend with the orgies of ejaculation and sodomy that mark parts of Toomey's life; and indeed, fornication emerges throughout the novel as a sort of leitmotif underlying both Toomey's personality and the author's sense of priority. (Burgess could not expect too many readers to know that Mahalingam...
...Show Host Mike Douglas. The resulting movie is sometimes very funny. It also represents a waltz step toward popular acceptance by a performer tired of being worshiped by the few. Like former cult favorites Chevy Chase and Steve Martin, Tomlin has made a laff-a-minute movie that will offend nobody - except the comic's most ardent fans, who will buy tickets and then yell, "Sell...
...dilemma for the leaders seems to be this: Should they execute Mao's widow, or impose the death penalty but not carry it out? Peking sources say that powerful Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping fears that executing Jiang Qing would not only deeply offend those Chinese who still cherish the memory of Mao but would also turn her into a martyr. Deng, however, has apparently not convinced members of the Politburo, as well as other party leaders who suffered at Jiang's hands during the Cultural Revolution, that executing her would do more harm than good. "There are different...
This sort of thing will almost certainly offend Christie purists, and it may puzzle those few remaining gentlefolk who are uninterested in the offstage carryings-on of picture people. But the film does capture, in satirically exaggerated tones, certain recognizable film types and the hyperbolic, hyperactive way they address one another during the many waiting-around hours their peculiar occupations impose upon them. This does not entirely compensate for the short weight this picture gives mystery fans or for its technical shoddiness. But the good lines make Mirror more fun to watch than it has any right...
Where, in its preparation, the film became mushy misanthropy one cannot tell. It can certainly be said that Popeye will bore children and offend adults who fondly remember the original. It is a travesty to hear Williams warble the classic "I yam what I yam" line in one of Harry Nilsson's many witless songs. "I'm not the man I was" would be a more appropriate lyric. Or maybe, "What have they done...