The pomposity of the Oscars is the hook, but it's the word retard that provides the squirm.
The official stance of the Arab governments is that any American attack on Iraq will further retard that progress.
He'd heard from a seventeen-year-old whom a Beatrice cop described as a "maybe retard" that they had bragged about committing the murder.
Responding to Tony's observation that the universe is fed up with the human race, Buck snaps, "We're the retard that the phys-ed teacher stuck on the popular guys' team?," scornfully reducing Tony's anguish to its puniest possible metaphorical size.
"Over the past two days I've been told hundreds of times that I'm fat, stupid, a retard, that I'm unfuckable, I'm a liar, a fraud, I'm mentally ill, I should be sent to a psychiatrist, I must be childless, I should be sterilised, I'm a bitch who should have her face smashed in".
Floating money values retard that trust, and give rise to protectionist impulses that always end in tears.
