Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that will help someone understand art, with only five people [in the audience], than a full house showing "Remains of the Day." He bristled at the suggestion that HFA films are "weird." "That's not weird; that's avant-garde," he sniffed. Petric has no patience for philistines who scorn film studies. "They are stupid," he says flatly. "If someone is still taking this issue, I would say he's undeveloped uncultured, primitive...
...since has been each side's differing notion of what objective criteria may be. To the White House, the term refers to numerical targets by which to measure the openness of Japanese markets -- the ratio of imports to total GNP is one gauge the U.S. has discussed. The Japanese scorn that approach as "managed trade," saying it would amount to permitting the U.S. to establish import goals for its products in Japan. They prefer vague promises to do better...
...eligible black voters casting ballots for the first time, but more than half are illiterate, and about 7 million of them live in rural areas far from the reach of campaign rallies and party workers. The tactics of the A.N.C. over the past 10 years led its & followers to scorn the local pseudoelections of the apartheid era rather than take part in them. "We come from a tradition of boycott politics," says national campaign chief Popo Molefe, who was convicted of treason in 1988 as a leader of the antigovernment United Democratic Front. "The vast majority of our people...
Valentine's Day is a "holiday" deserving of nothing but the greatest scorn and contempt. The problems associated with Valentine's Day are too numerous to even begin discussing. But we'll give...
...text, but he does point up homosexual undertones, overtones and just plain tones in the relationships among the two old men and two younger ones who purport to be servants but act like thugs. As usual with Pinter, sexual attraction manifests itself in smidgens of affection and buckets of scorn, and the goal of Eros is the adolescent urge to have something to brag about. The sexual linkages, from passion to cuckoldry, get even more complicated in the second act, when the two old men shift from scrutinizing each other as strangers to confronting each other as acquaintances since school...