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Cassell Dictionary Of Insulting Quo Book
It's hard to resist a book that has for its own jacket copy the following sentence: "Cruel, snide, rude and bitchy, the Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations records the human spirit at its least spiritual." For once, there's truth in advertising: this book is a glorious celebration of how scathingly, hilariously, and aptly mean people have been to one another through the centuries. In its pages you'll find writers skewering writers; politicians badmouthing other politicians; nations insulting other nations; and, of course, critics savaging everyone in sight. There's Georges Clemenceau on the United States: "America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." Or Robert Hughes on the artist Jeff Koons: "The last bit of methane left in the intestine of the dead cow that is post-modernism." It's all good, dirty fun--and great for plagiarizing the next time you need witty dinner party repartee. Just be careful who you sit next to....Read More
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Product Description
A celebration of insults, with victims ranging from literary figures to politicians, kings and queens to actors, musicians and artists, this text also side-swipes at more general targets, such as businessmen, newspapers and the countryside.
- 0304349267
- 9780304349265
- Jonathon Green
- 26 June 1997
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Paperback (Book)
- 288
- New edition
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