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...anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person. Your insult to a head of state and your odious lies dishonor not only your magazine but also your nation . . . You symbolize the worst in humanity...
...mysteriously, a newborn will smile beatifically when a piece of cotton impregnated with banana essence is waved under its nose, and it will protest at the smell of rotten eggs. Other infant prejudices: vanilla (good), shrimp...
...this reason finally, Speaking in Tongues also raises some rather intriguing and potentially depressing political questions about a music industry that is practically rotten to the core F. M. Radio and the new Music Television are in sorry shape in all ways except financial, not only in terms of vitality but in terms of simple human qualities. Black artists have--save for a select few--virtually no access to the staple of F. M. Programming, the execrable A.O.R., or to M. T. V., a veritable case-study in segregation. And there's no question that funk, which Black performers like...
...summary cannot do justice to America's considerable contribution to the art of insult. One of the best flamethrowers in our early House of Representatives was the brilliant Virginia Congressman John Randolph. He once described a political foe as "a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks...
...saying, "I think all exhibitions are fixed." Excerpted in Harper's magazine and elsewhere, Mewshaw's book has replaced the weather as the common subject at Wimbledon. It is the account of a tennis buffs disillusionment when he discovers that everything in men's tennis is rotten: the strong-arming for appearance money, the dubious clinics and commercial deals to launder the money, the cooperation of umpires in protecting the investment, the splitting of prizes, the prearranging of exhibition results, the "tanking" of unlucrative doubles matches merely to catch a plane...