Word: disdain
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...locations discussed in this magazine were visited by students on vacation; the other two are the authors' hometowns. But a common thread runs through them all-a sincere, and often humorous, disdain for tourist hotspots, accompanied by a healthy reverence for the unique. Three of the authors cannot help but mention the presence of Polo outlets in their respective vacation-spots, while the cliched myth of local authenticity is even debunked by a humorous look at a disastrous trip to Tahiti...
Rhew does not hide his disdain for cities. The Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator almost didn't make it to Harvard's urban campus...
...molds and photographs survived. Architect Jordi Bonet, who supervises the construction budget, says the opponents are "people who don't want a church as the emblem of our city." Moreover, Subirachs has publicly scorned the abstract artists favored by city hall in its Olympic building binge -- and the disdain is mutual. Says poet Joan Brossa: "Gaudi was avant-garde, but Subirachs is retro-garde...
...while a good number of those driving by the vigil honked loudly and flashed "thumbs-up" signs to the protesters, a few verbally illustrated their disdain for the protest, yelling profanities out the windows of their cars...
...popular Soviet reformer. Then, in a hot-off-the- presses story line, he and his colleagues race to stop a renegade Iraqi colonel from launching a biological weapon against Israel. There are folks back at the agency to contend with as well: a new generation of computer jocks who disdain the old-timers, and a slimy acting director who longs for a new Stalin in the Soviet Union to "give us our enemy back...