Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After harshly rebuking Lott on Dec. 12 for his praise of Thurmond's segregationist presidential bid in 1948, Bush went silent--annoying Senators who wanted to give Lott an embrace as well as those who wanted a push. Instead Bush played the old Washington game he claims to disdain: letting surrogates put out the message. Anonymous White House aides leaked daily that Bush wanted Lott to resign, while Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bush's brother Jeb, the Florida Governor, went public with anti-Lott comments...
...that could be described as politely tenacious. In her accounting classes at Mississippi State University in the mid-1980s, Cooper used to sit in the front row, dead center, says Phyllis Massey, her college roommate. And she would proceed to pepper the professor with questions, oblivious to her classmates' disdain. "It didn't matter if the bell was fixin' to ring. If she wanted to know something, she wanted to know," says Massey...
...precise for us to have invented," he says. Motioning toward some of the 90 different cheeses and 95 pasta shapes he sells, Tamburini says he frowns on too much cross-pollination of regional and national cuisines and insists on sticking close to the basic traditions. Bologna, to the disdain of some top restaurant critics, has been very wary about welcoming nouvelle cuisine, but Tamburini is unrepentant. "Abandoning traditional dishes is like trying to wash away the memory of poverty," he says. "Experiments are okay, but [a chef] must have great, great culture to know how to introduce new variations...
...reputation, ain't even got no education," sings Houston. "God is the reason my soul is free, and I don't need you looking at me." Few of Houston's lyrics are so specifically barbed, but she has a rare gift for imbuing even the blandest cliche with disdain. Houston is still one of the dozen best singers in the world, and her defiance would be worth slogging through if she'd just ululate a little. But with the exception of On My Own, an elegant twist on Diana Ross's It's My Turn, those magical BOOM! "and ayiiiii...
...says. "They even gave me keys to their flats. It was strange. Norwegians are more distant." Now an associate professor of migration and ethnic relations at Sweden's Malmö University, Roald has seen attitudes toward her faith shift from indifference to begrudging tolerance mixed with mostly quiet disdain. "Scandinavians want to be inclusive, but it's difficult," she says, especially after Sept. 11. Thanks in part to Osama bin Laden, Roald and other Muslims unfairly bear what she calls "guilt by association." She often feels the judgment of others the instant they see her headscarf. "When I became...