Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...circus and a lot of comic milling for $150 per person (excluding drinks), means to be the ultimate upmarket version of show-biz spectacle. The decor is suitably lavish. The four-course dinner is ambitious, if too heavily salted. And the entertainment is strenuous in trying to please, offend and astonish all at once...
This film should offend very specific groups of people like... women. And men. And defense lawyers and prosecutors and cops and psychiatrists and politicians and all Asian people (especially Chinese-Americans) and blacks and whites and people who appreciate good movies and people who care about their seven dollars and people who like Chazz Palmintieri and redheads and brunettes and people with hazel eyes and... well, you get the picture...
...there could be hope: if the verdict allows whites and blacks to talk about race more candidly, it will be a blessing. If blacks and whites can discuss race openly and honestly in public and private without fearing they will offend someone else with well-intentioned questions, that at least will be a victory out of a trial that had very...
...Deaccessioning," as museums call their periodic disposals of unwanted art, is a touchy and politically sensitive process that is traditionally done quietly and piecemeal so as not to offend donors of the jettisoned works or scare off potential benefactors. "There's a worry about agitating the public," says Neubert. The crowd that gathered at Denver's auction, however, seemed excited only about bidding up the prices. From the opening gavel of what amounted to a nine-hour garage sale, buyers in the museum's main hall sought to outbid one another on 630 lots that ranged from ivory figurines...
...using her podium time in Beijing to criticize the Chinese treatment of women. What neither she nor the press mentioned is that in Pakistan, female rape victims are subject to prison sentences for "adultery." Bhutto once promised to end this stunningly malicious practice, but backed off rather than offend the local mullahs...