Word: offendable
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...their writers and directors. For in most race films, as in mainstream Hollywood product, it was white people taking the pictures. They imitated the Hollywood genres of comedy, melodrama, musicals and Westerns. Race movies were counterfeit white movies - faux-ofay. And though the producers surely didn't intend to offend their customers, black-cast pictures flaunted racial stereotypes: idle bucks spending the rent money on dice games and numbers policies, and the women who love them. In the 1939 "Moon Over Harlem," directed by B-movie cult fave Edgar G. Ulmer and written by his wife Shirley, a brassy woman...
...none of these explanations quite capture the nature of Le Pen's success. He is not a new face (he first ran for the presidency in 1974), and the nature of his politics is well known. Le Pen is a racist, equal-opportunity bigot, as happy to offend Jews as Arabs. Why did the citizens of the country that likes to think of itself as the most civilized nation on earth give him more support than ever...
...shrines and small shops selling everything from tourist trinkets to fragrant thanakha logs?from which Burmese women grind their traditional face powder. Monkeys cavort along the path?cute from a distance but downright terrifying when they bare their teeth and hiss. Be warned: while eating pork or cursing may offend the nats, a bag of cookies in your back pocket is a sure invitation to an attack by monkeys...
...sure to offend readers with your abrasive personality from the beginning by starting your acknowledgments with the sentence: “This may be the longest acknowledgments page in the history of publishing, but just deal with...
...just because the University president has stolen “C-minus’s” stump speech is that reason to give the vacuous hysteria over grade inflation any more credence? Lower may have one-upped “C-minus” in the competition to offend minority students and faculty, but he certainly hasn’t one-upped him in the competition to provide a reasonable explanation of why the nation’s most elite University should expend time and energy trying to worsen its students’ grades. Indeed, with grade inflation...