Word: taunting
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Occasionally a mock show of support is used to taunt the regime. Students who must take military courses at Warsaw University disturb lectures by applauding every mention of the Soviet Union. Theatergoers have proved more boisterous, hooting and clapping at the appearance of actors and musicians who have publicly expressed support for martial law. Many show-business professionals boycott official television broadcasts. Painters now consider public exhibitions to be in bad taste: when the Ministry of Culture mounted a retrospective show of modern Polish art last April, some angry artists demanded that their canvases not be hung...
...success made him at 13 one of the youngest Eagle Scouts ever. ("If I hadn't been a Scout," Spielberg cheerfully admits today, "I'd probably have ended up as an ax murderer or a butcher in a Jewish deli.") One high school jock who used to taunt Steven was won over when the young director cast him in an 8-mm movie called Battle Squad. At Phoenix's Arcadia High School, Spielberg found fellow spirits in the theater-arts program-"my leper colony. That's when I realized there were options besides being a jock...
...taunt or two later, and a few clutches aside, and Milardo and Harvard's Shayne Kakulowicz had their gloves off and were going at it pretty good in front of the Harvard bench...
Preoccupied with making money, living in the "right" apartment building, joining the "right" synagogue, and even making his family look "right" to the neighbors (he would constantly and publicly taunt his lame daughter by claiming she could walk normally if she wanted to), L. J. Odets was an oppressive force on his sensitive young...
...former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 58, it seemed like old times. After watching a soccer match in Rio, Kissinger flew to Brasilia, the capital, to deliver a university lecture. Some 300 protesting students pelted the lecture hall with eggs and tomatoes, and then pounded samba drums to taunt him. Hustled out by police into a paddy wagon, Kissinger took it all in stride: "I used to be a professor at Harvard, so I am used to this. But Brazilian students do have better rhythm...