Word: snickers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to join CityStep. Don't get me wrong; no one has ever mistaken me for a red-headed Ginger Rogers or anything. My friends loudly snicker whenever I set foot on a dance floor, and that's my friends. But watching my roommate last spring step ecstatically with her kids got me itching to jump right in, both left feet first...
...kids. Face another harsh reality: Everybody at this school, being so smart and all, can, believe it or not, recognize your handwriting. Which means that when they check out that book on Mating Habits of the Lower Primates, they read every insipid thing you scrawled, and they still snicker every time they pass by in the yard. You've become something of a school-wide joke; you're the fool who scribbled "symbolism," "why?" and "interesting" on every page of To Kill a Mockingbird. Take a tip, my friend: Mend your ways. Lose the hi-liter. The rest...
...crash is 1 in 10 million and use special tricks to distract myself from my mind's own in-flight horror movies. So far, so good. In fact, when I glanced over at the dorky plastic seat and headset I was about to don, I could barely suppress a snicker. No way was this setup going to scare me, I thought...
...this temptation to "exoticise" or trivialize the stories through humor with triumphant results. Don't misunderstand--there is plenty of humor, horror and wonder about the stories is Calasso's writing; but these feelings spring from Calasso's treatment of the stories as texts to learn from, not to snicker pre-pubescently at. Even more interesting is his incorporation of Western texts and ideas into a decidedly Eastern way of thinking. Thus Proust becomes a Vedic prayer-chant master; the great creator-spirit Prajapat faces Kafka-esque dilemmas that lead him to be compared to The Trial...
...cloud broke her reverie, was only one example. Fact magazine came out with a 64-page "psychological study," purportedly a survey of professional shrinks, that showed Goldwater was "psychologically unfit" to be President. The candidate's slogan, "In your heart, you know he's right," was transformed into a snicker: "In your guts, you know he's nuts...