Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing Universal needs. The studio has been in turmoil for months, firing a number of top executives and misfiring with a number of expensive films, including Primary Colors and Mercury Rising. Late last week came reports that Universal Studios chairman Frank Biondi was out of the top job. Adding insult to injury, the aborted Babe benefit had been arranged by Biondi's wife. Universal made a contribution to the Defense Fund. Now it has to hope that Miller can turn Babe from a sow's ear into a silk purse from which it can fill its own coffers...
...restricted the size of signage b) kept statewide candidates who accepted PAC money from campaigning in town c) punished women for publicly displaying their breasts d) made it a hate crime to insult Canadians...
Last week, in a private meeting with Jewish supporters, Senator Al D'Amato called his opponent, Representative Charles Schumer, a "putzhead," which is a vulgar Yiddish insult. When Schumer took umbrage, D'Amato offered this state-of-the-art response...
...think it's a compliment, not an insult," hesays. "I would like to have a congressman who hadenough ideas to publish a book, rather than justkeeping a seat warm for two years...
...would like to think that some day when I am old and infirm, young healthy people will offer to help me across the street, give me their seats on the bus or carry my groceries. To offer help is a mark of respect, not an insult. To offer such help in no way implies that I am better than another person, or that she could not help me as well, with skills that I do not possess...