Word: snickering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seen criminal lunacy of this kind on the screen before. What's most effective about the new Kiss of Death is Tucci's marvelously slimy prosecutor. This character was once a symbol of society's rectitude. Now he's as hard and amoral as the gangsters, someone we snicker at knowingly. He, and our reaction to him, may be the scariest thing about this movie-scarier than Cage's performance. Or the good reviews for Caruso's nonperformance...
...World Cup sportscasters snicker when they suggest a tiring player did not have "enough days off," here's why: two researchers in Israel have studied 36 male Israeli football players and have established the optimum period of sexual abstinence for peak athletic performance. Complicating life for coaches, athletes and their partners, the interlude varies with a player's position on the field. Forwards, who expend extra energy and aggression, should refrain from sexual activity for six to eight days before a game. Defenders and goalies, who require less physical energy on the playing field, need only curtail bedroom sports three...
...regulations are a joke because logging companies do their own surveys. But regulations have slowed log production, and Pacific has fought back. In 1990 the company reamed a broad, mile-and-a-half corridor into the middle of the Headwaters forest and called it, with a wink and a snicker, "our wildlife-biologist study trail...
...easy to be critical, to flatten politicians who are not perfect, but our real challenge is to convert cynicism into action, and action into progress. It's easier to snicker at higher-ups than it is to critically probe our own foibles; it's easier to blame others when we have not yet faced up to our own responsibility for improving the state of our political affairs...
...because Americans' collective tolerance for vulgarity has gone way, way up. Just a decade ago, "hell" and "damn" were the most offensive words permitted on broadcast TV; today the colloquialisms "butt" and "sucks" are in daily currency on all major networks. Characters on Fox sitcoms and MTV cartoon shows snicker about their erections, and the stars of NYPD Blue can call each other "asshole." Look at Montel Williams and Geraldo. Listen to Howard Stern...