Word: sneeringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Without fail, one night a week, 200 to 300 "L.A. Law" groupies leave their law school casebooks behind and gravitate to Harkness Commons to cheer and sneer their idols...
...Does he sneer at pretentious rivalries? Is he afraid "Showcase Showdown" contestants won't appreciate Ivy League football...
...confrontation has revived San Francisco's mostly unjustified arrogance toward its East Bay neighbor. The old cliches have been aired yet again about Giants fans partying on Chardonnay and quiche in Candlestick parking lots while A's adherents settle for beer and bratwurst at the Coliseum. San Franciscans sneer at the drug problem in "Cokeland," and last week Mayor Art Agnos took arrogance to new heights, initially declining to make the traditional World Series bet with his Oakland counterpart, Lionel Wilson, because "there's nothing in Oakland I want...
...Boston's Carlton Fisk: 3-0, 3-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-6, 7-6. During and after it, Rose called that game the best he ever knew, the one he almost didn't mind losing. Only in the past few days could that possibly bring a sneer...
Even better is Brun's turn as Dr. Chausable; he employs an entirely different British accent to capture perfectly the character's well-meaning but provincial sobriety as well as his underlying lecherousness. And as society matron Aunt Augusta, Emma Laskin drawls each word with a terrifically contemptuous sneer; she may be the only actor on stage who can not only read a Wilde epigram but can squeeze a laugh out of it as well...