Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of the 1930's Communist Party USA would have branded Harrington a "social facist." But the problem is more complex. Harrington is tired of being on the outs--maybe all those eighty-three-delegate conventions, all those years as the object of scorn of mainstream American politicians, have gotten to him--now he wants to go to New York City and have Messrs. Udall, Jackson, Harris and Bayn petition for support next year. Maybe he believes that that is what an effective socialist movement is all about...
...knock-kneed mini skirted wig wearing died blond mamma's scar born dead my scorn your whore rough heeled broken nailed powdered face...
Lurid Dreams. When these contradictions are pointed out, Tom seethes. "He's really deeply sensitive," says a friend. "He wants to be taken seriously." Tom is so miffed by critical scorn that he has started a widely advertised critics contest, inviting the public to have a go at the spoilsports who "sarcastically attack the films they love" and soliciting pity for film makers "who feel so helpless when all of their work . . . is destroyed by some inflated critic smugly showing off his intellectual superiority...
...refuses to dictate his thoughts out loud, since this precludes the transformation of language through style. He notes unhappily that many young people these days scorn style. For him the act of writing and the elements of style remain inseparable...
...truths about Antonioni's work had been plotted out long before his current audience ever had a chance to come in contact with him. So much scorn was directed at his films that until The Passenger opened a couple of weeks ago in New York., he was remembered largely for his characteristically bad Zabriskie Point, instead of for the few artistically successful movies he had turned out before. The film critics had a lot of fun with that one; after all, what is better for dicing and discard than an ambitious, extravagant failure? If it is flamboyant enough...