Word: offending
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Barbershop will probably offend people--really, it goes out of its way to do so--but it's not alone in pushing the boundaries of African-American TV comedy. Chappelle's Show, though on hiatus, is still throwing elbows on DVD, while the most anticipated show of the fall is the Rock-produced Everybody Hates Chris on UPN, in which a white kid uses the N word during a fight scene. October brings an animated version of Aaron McGruder's militantly funny comic strip The Boondocks to Cartoon Network. Ridley, once a writer on Martin Lawrence's sitcom Martin, says...
...movie version of Earl Derr Biggers' Confucian detective stories had something to offend everyone. Played by the Swedish actor Warner Oland (16 films), then by Missouri's Sidney Toler (22), Charlie spouted fortune-cookie aphorisms and lorded it over his No. 1 son. Toler, shown at right, even had a black man (the gifted Mantan Moreland) for comic relief. Yet there's a pinchpenny gusto and some nifty plot twists to these Monogram studio marvels...
...will lead to a general fear of speaking openly and plainly about religious matters." In free societies, says Australian Family Association vice-president Bill Muehlenberg, passion is the lifeblood of religious debate: "If you're serious about your faith and its truth claims, you're bound to be offended at times, or to cause offense." Elizabeth Kendal, a Melbourne-based religious liberty monitor for the World Evangelical Alliance, believes laws like Victoria's will undermine all but the most anemic faiths, the kind that "never offend anyone or upset anyone, and never challenge another's claim to truth...
...better relations with the pariah regime will not only help solve cross-border problems, such as the trafficking of narcotics, but also encourage democratic change in Burma. Critics like HRW assert, however, that the transfer of Burmese exiles is meant to stop their involvement in political activity that might offend the junta, and that the moves by Thailand, taken collectively, send a message of support for the ruling generals. "If this is the price of better relations between Rangoon and Bangkok," says Sunai, "I'm not sure it's worth paying...
...film, though, lies dormant in its own decency. Richard Attenborough's movies are like the best-behaved guests at a Swiss embassy reception; they never offend, never impress. So he will not force the narrative into revealing new corners, or visualize a number with anything as raw and tasteless as imagination. But discretion can take A Chorus Line only so far. Onstage the characters were small, vulnerable creatures on a big, bare stage; onscreen they must trumpet XXXXX aborted in midflight to concentrate on all the suffering wimpery of the plot. Zach (Michael Douglas), the genius director, must brood...