Word: sneered
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Richard Phillip’s “Untitled (Smiley)” (2000) evokes billboard and pop art. This adolescent ingenue looks down on the viewer with an insouciant sneer that recalls a mix between a 1960s beach babe pin-up and a Rosenquist parody of American pop culture. The blaring yellow happy face placed like an enormous sticker over her nipple confronts the viewer with its insistent smile...
...what they really do. It’s the same old catch: if I buy that $300 pantsuit, I’ll look like the 6-foot 1-inch, 120 lbs. girl wearing it. Men will throw their coats over potholes and puddles as I walk by, women will sneer at me with envy. And perhaps I’ll cure world hunger and save a few lost puppies before heading...
...LANTANA LIT: Sneer at tabloid journalism if you will, but the National Enquirer sold 6.5 million newsstand copies of its issue with Elvis peacefully at rest in his open casket. In September, Iain Calder, the Enquirer?s editor-in-chief for 30 years, will detail such feats of tabloidism in an as-yet untitled memoir for Talk Miramax. This is the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried, even before they?re buried...
Organizers have spiced up the format of snowboarding's other event, giant slalom, to be more fan-friendly. But the sport's true believers sneer at this trick-free speed show--one reason the U.S. team won't be much of a factor. Europeans will dominate, as they do in speed-skiing events...
...business leaders has grown extraordinarily. In the 1980s and '90s, Lee Iaccoca, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Jack Welch and their ilk became our new heroes. Businessmen seemed to combine a buccaneer's spirit with a slide-rule mind. "Washington" (the word had to be said with a sneer) was, by comparison with the worlds of our titans, disorganized and inefficient, quite hopeless...