Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wasn?t just that he left us hanging that hardened the city against him. It wasn?t merely bruised pride. It was his utter lack of civility, his cursory attention to team dynamics, his outspoken disdain for Pittsburgh and its fans that turned me against him. He was cold and downright mean - a far cry from players like Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski, whose names still elicit a misty tear or two from die-hard Bucs fans...
Kokujo (girls who like black men) paint their skin cocoa, weave their hair in cornrows, dress like Lil' Kim--all the better to attract the prime catch, the black military man. In a country notorious for its disdain for people of color--pale skin has traditionally been the highest mark of beauty--the emergence of a subculture fetishizing blacks raises numerous issues, from the proliferation and power of global image peddlers like MTV to very basic questions of racial and sexual identity...
...back and make gondolas in the U.S., but it's not as interesting." Besides, who in America knows a real gondola from a plywood imitation? "In Las Vegas you can see some very fancy plastic canoes with electric motors on them that pass for gondolas," he notes with disdain. The demand for gondolas is strong in the U.S. - they are a tourist draw in just about any city with a body of water - and he has sent two each to Austin, Boston and San Diego...
...country notorious for its disdain for people of color?even among Japanese, pale skin has traditionally been the highest mark of beauty?that a subculture has emerged fetishizing blacks raises numerous issues, from the proliferation and power of global image peddlers like MTV to very basic questions of racial and sexual identity. There is an objectifying component to the kokujo's particular infatuation, and by definition that is dehumanizing. If you are saying a black is better than a white, that's racism, albeit through a twisted, hip-hop hula hoop. And isn't part of the appeal of these...
...Megawati's critics say her preference for public silence masks a dim intellect. That may be too harsh, but she has few discernible beliefs other than a garbled echo of her father's nationalism and a disdain for regional autonomy. On July 22, when Wahid tried to declare a state of emergency and dissolve parliament, Megawati went to the movies to see Shrek with her grandchildren. On her second day in office, when she might have been lobbying the national assembly for her pick for Vice President, she attended a fashion show at a posh Jakarta hotel...