Word: snickers
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...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...
...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...
...woman who is attracted to her superior, the inferences that colleagues may draw from that relationship make her think long and hard before entering into a romance. Is it worth it for me to date my boss, a woman may think, if in the future others will snicker that my success has come about not because of my talent but because I'm involved with my supervisor...
...honey, do we really need any more philosophical tofu?" (Henry Featherless and his wife Glenda are browsing in the Just Barely Books store at the shopping mall. He flips through a demure volume she has chosen, suppresses a snicker and gives her the business.) "Says here on the dust jacket, Itty- Bitty Insights, Part...