Word: sneer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are really two sides to the Chapman coin. Heads, he looks down his nose at the Loeb; tails, he's a slightly discriminating perfectionist. "People don't ask him to rehearsals because they are afraid he would sneer," says one HDC member. "If he can't do a show exactly right, he can't bear to do it," says another. "He's kind of a snob. He won't do a show that would be compromised from the beginning...
Lemmon loses his mobility only two minutes after the picture begins. Cast as a CBS cameraman who is clipped while covering a Cleveland Browns football game, he wakes up in the hospital confronting the saurian sneer of "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich (Matthau), an ambulance chaser who, by the look of his crummy clothes, has been chasing them on his hands and knees. Willie's skin is as grey as the towel in a night-court lavatory, but his ideas are crisp and green. As the cameraman's brother-in-law, he loyally announces: "We're going...
Sitting & Sneering. Correspondents in Viet Nam have complained bitterly of the military briefings they are given in Saigon, but Retired Brigadier General Marshall flatly contradicts them. A grizzled veteran who has dealt with military PIOs from the Sinai desert to Korea, he found a "high level of competence" in Viet Nam. "The deplorable thing," he says, "is that young writers, too lazy to gather the facts themselves, sit around and sneer at all that is said. With the conference reeking of pseudosophisti-cation and half-baked cynicism, perspective inevitably becomes blurred. The result is an accenting of the negative...
...little the master of his party that he was unable last week to persuade a nominating convention to accept his candidates for either Governor or Lieutenant Governor. For all that, Robert Francis Kennedy's pockets are ajingle with the coins of popularity-and, Victor Hugo's sneer notwithstanding, such small change is a politician's most negotiable currency...
...years there has been less interchange of ideas than the Institute would have liked. The young mathematicians talk mainly to each other, probably because no one else can understand them. Older continental scholars frown at younger types who lunch without coat and tie. Some U.S. social scientists quietly sneer at the work of their European counterparts as pedantic and isolated from contemporary currents. Yet since most of the scholars are at the top of their fields, there is little jockeying for prestige and plenty of mutual respect. "This is a sort of paradise," says Literary Historian Marjorie Hope Nicolson...