Word: rude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Westmoreland said he was surprised by the positive response of the Boston College students, "There wasn't a single rude question asked me tonight," he said. "Ten years ago 50 percent of the questions would have been rude...
SOMEHOW, OUT OF the past weekend's flurry of verbal assaults, rude interruptions, angry personal statements, and emotional hyperbole, the audience at the MIT-Harvard sponsored Symposium on Women and Pornography managed to indulge occasionally in laughter, what some French feminists could even call "jouissance," gendered female. Politics after all, as guest speaker Catherine MacKinnon noted sarcastically, is a very sexy business...
Ellen Harvey '89, originally from England, said that Americans' friendliness generally makes it easy to adjust to life at Harvard. She did say, though, that some remarks which in the U.S. are considered polite would elsewhere be rude...
...movie does have its higher points, like a scene where a French waiter recognizes his easy American marks, and makes fun of the Griswalds while they order. As the subtitles inform the audience, he makes rude references to Ellen and Audrey, promises to bring two bottles of dishwater to the table instead of wine, and upon leaving, kindly in-forms them to fuck themselves while the Griswald's remain singularly impressed with their ability to communicate and assimilate into a foreign culture...
Black Sparrow's reprints of Lewis' iconoclastic works, like the magazine Blast (1914 and 1915) and the autobiographical Rude Assignment, were illustrated with Lewis' adrenal scrawls and became another profitable venture. Deliberately bold typefaces that varied wildly in size to emphasize certain words, according to the author's wishes, as well as surreal pronouncements ("A picture of a man either is or is not") exerted an appeal on college audiences: more than 50,000 copies of Lewisiana have been sold, and other volumes are on the way. "Lewis wrote 45 books," proclaims Martin. "And Black Sparrow has reprint rights...