Word: taunt
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LIKE A ROLLING STONE (Columbia). Dylan lights out after Temple Drake's daughters, spoiled man-eaters whom he can only taunt and threaten. He shouts out the chronicle of a girl's decline from boarding-school brat to streetwalker. The lyrics, written by Dylan, are powerful and literate and the song is twice as long as most pop hits. But it is climbing the charts and probably dusting off a lot of dictionaries...
There's nothing he likes better than no taunt one of his colleagues on the City Council, he does it all the time. He relishes outlandish proposals--like chopping off a corner of Harvard Square, turning the Lampoon building into a public toilet, or Harvard Yard into a cemetery--and then resolutely defending them. "It's fun," Vellucci says, and politics should...
...former inhabit the relatively wealthy Selma suburb where Mayor Joseph Smitherson lives. His neighbors lined the curbs last Friday as 300 silent demonstrators were arrested for picketing Smitherson's home. The onlookers were well-dressed. They didn't taunt the demonstrators and, knowing I was a reporter, tried to reason with...
...theme, but it's the uncannily fresh tone of the Buttons which makes it a delightful success. When those English lads charmingly chanted "Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Spill his Blood!" it became clear that their best was a curiously grisly Disney. When these French scamps taunt their enemies, "All the Valerans are ass-scratchers!" they are convincing and rambunctiously Rabelaisian...
...that suggests that the world is a brothel patronized by fetishists with illusions of grandeur, and The Blacks, in which the Negro cast dons strange white masks to act out the ritual rape and murder of a white woman-only to turn to the whites in the audience and taunt them with the explanation that they are only behaving as whites expect them to behave. Last week The Blacks passed the 1,000th-performance mark off-Broadway in New York...