Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Casual Brutality. The sting of Untouchability has softened somewhat. No longer, for example, are any harijans expected to use earthen spittoons hung round the neck because their spitting on the ground might "pollute" barefoot Brahmans. Until the 1930s, the lowliest Untouchables were virtually "unseeable" as well in some parts of India; caste Hindus believed even an Untouchable's shadow was defiling. Though such attitudes no longer prevail, a special government inquiry commission recently concluded that despite decades of legislation, discrimination is still "virulent all over India...
...couple that allows their marriage to be filmed and exposed in such a way is already approaching crisis. "I personally feel that it should be dealt with as drama," says King, "as a piece of fiction." But abstracting the situation in this manner removes not only some of its sting but much of its validity. It will be an almost irresistible temptation for audiences to align themselves with either husband or wife. Some will call Antoinette a selfish, shrill virago; others will see Billy as a frustrated personality whose need to control the relationship comes from his own insecurities...
...Bahamas, Luxembourg, the Netherlands Antilles. (One result is that I.O.S. paid only $945,000 in taxes on its 1968 income of $15.3 million.) Lately, as Cornfeld's success has led dozens of other mutual funds to incorporate "offshore," the tax-dodging criticism has lost much of its sting. Last June, I.O.S. quietly shifted its legal domicile to Canada. European bankers who once sneered at Cornfeld's brash ways have lately begun to copy his sales methods and solicit his business...