Word: snickers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said above, however, I'll admit that I took it too seriously. And if the excesses of campus sloganeering stopped there, I would never have found it worthy of anything more than a snicker in the dining hall. But as anyone who lives among the prodigious effluence of postered proclamations well knows, that is not the case. We are daily confronted with hundreds of insipid verbal schemes to snatch our attention, which, though they are sometimes amusing at first glance, soon become intolerably irritating...
...much of their show, Beavis and Butthead are themselves MTV viewers. They mindlessly watch videos, and they snicker. Like this: "ehehehehehehe." Or sometimes like this: "hehehehehe." Occassionally, one or the other will say that the video "sucks." Sometimes, they'll throw in a vaguely misogynistic comment about a woman appearing in the video. Other times, they'll do something terribly cruel to an animal...
This new generation thinks Beavis and Butthead are hysterical. They laugh, and loudly at each snicker, each "sucks," each bigoted comment...
...younger brother Peter, 16, is an elder statesman of the Beavis Generation. He does a reasonably good impression of the Beavis and Butthead snicker, and uses various Beavis and Butthead comments...
...complex and harrowing aspects of life under a dictatorship are not examined in depth, for instance as in Ariel Dorfman's recent Death of the Maiden, instead of being subjected to this shallow evaluation and empty philosophizing. Instead of entering his world it is tempting to sit back and snicker...