Word: jeering
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...himself? On the muddy banks between the clear running stream of communication and the swamp of self-expression squats a swarm of modern poets, patting mud-pies into shape for the admiration of themselves and their playmates. The much larger crowd of regular guys in the swimming hole jeer at these patty-cakers as sissies, but stand a little in awe of them too, seeing how cleverly they mold their incomprehensible mud images...
...grotesque and vicious caricature. TIME'S New York is one which dwells pointedly on its noise, crowding, aggressiveness, hellish glare at night, marijuana, cockroach-infested kitchens, tigerish and provocative women, obsession with the present, propensity to sneer at Philadelphia and jeer at Boston, and coolness to visitors...
...Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx-were joined into one big city. But most of its citizens are vaguely surprised at plans for celebrating this golden anniversary-starting with a monster parade up Fifth Avenue next week. They leave this sort of historic memory to Philadelphia, at which they jeer; to Boston, which they pity; Or to Atlanta, a place near Miami, and where the Civil War was fought. New York is hypnotized by the present-which, after all, is equipped with television and a big bull market for men, foam-rubber breasts for women, and propeller-bearing caps (Macy...
...wrestlers go, paraded down the aisle surrounded by policemen. His once-black hair is long, marcelled by a beauty parlor and bleached an improbable pale blond. By theatrical standards, his act is too broadly conceived and overplayed-but it goes well in a sports arena. Men jeer him with catcalls and wolf-whistles. When a woman fan heckles him, he retorts acidly: "I told you not to come down tonight, Mother...
Banana Nose. Why do horseplayers jeer the jockey they freely acknowledge to be the best? The fan who shouts, "Hey you, Banana Nose, drop dead!" would have a hard time explaining it. If pinned down, he. would probably admit that he thinks Arcaro is so good he can win whenever he wants to. And thus, when Arcaro loses, the fan suspects something fishy is going...