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Rieff might have reread these passages before he wrote a scathing review of Thomas L. Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree for the Los Angeles Times last month, in which he ridiculed Friedman for just this kind of naive extrapolation of the future from the present.
She lives in fear of breast cancer; adores Ingrid Bergman; learns to ride a bike, then, ridiculed by her family, abandons it.
For most of the 1970s, Linda was one of the most universally ridiculed figures in pop music, her shortcomings as a singer and musician all too vivid on Paul's records and, especially, his tours.
Charles' architecture institute is floundering and ridiculed, British modernist architects (Richard Rogers, Norman Foster) are among the most respected in the world, and the prince's handlers think his quest makes him look stodgy--a no-no in Tony Blair's Britain.
Miller describes Bob Marley's stance as "uplifting unruliness," and notes that when The Harder They Come set Jamaica's record for box-office take, it replaced The Sound of Music , "a musical that perfectly symbolizes the goody-goody moralism that, for better or worse, reggae, like rock and roll, mocked, ridiculed, and beat into cultural retreat."