Word: taunting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...professional precision the latest cast of A Chorus Line would be hard put to match. As the Fox logo fades, the crowd recites the utterly inappropriate prologue to Star Wars: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Poor normal Brad is greeted with the same scatological taunt every time his name is mentioned; poor virginal Janet is "Slut!" Brad cannot slap a desk, or Frank snap his surgical gloves, without the faithful's perfectly timed handclap. The portentous pauses in Rocky cry out for rude interpolations, so that the screen actors at times seem to be responding...
...Jews locked in the local church before being taken away. At Treblinka, site of the Nazis' most efficient gas chambers, villagers recall standing by the railbed watching Jews inside the trains. With a smile, the villagers would draw their fingers quickly across their necks: a warning and a wicked taunt to those about...
...somebody else writing his story," says psychologist Samuel Harrell, who consulted on the BTK case in the 1970s. "He's all ego." But he was not trying to get caught--he didn't think he could be caught. All the poems and puzzles he created over the years to taunt the police were peppered with clues to his identity, like a word search he sent to a TV station last May packed with terms like "lost pet" and "6220"--his house number on Independence Street in Park City. But he was just showing off, a peacock fanning out its feathers...
...skyrocketing. Rafail Islamgazin, a retired army colonel, wrote to the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda about how the law affects him: "I received some $250 [worth of] benefits, but my monetary compensation is now $31 while my utility bills have increased by 150%. The state must really hate its defenders to taunt them like this." The cutbacks triggered protests all across Russia, and a rare volley of criticism aimed directly at President Putin. "With this legislation, Putin has delegitimized his office," says Mikhail Delyagin, an economist and director of the Institute of Modernization. "He's created the threat of a major state...
...criticized the Bush administration’s inaction in the face of global warming, and even dipped into his bag of jokes to taunt the man who beat him out for the presidency...