Word: snickers
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...first reaction was to snicker. Poor, lonely Yalies. Such a bad football team...
...rivals are already sniping at each other. "We think our format takes better advantage of the strength of comedy than just a clip channel," says Tom Freston, head of MTV Networks. "Comedy has traditionally been character driven and story driven. It takes time to work." HBO executives snicker. "Why should their channel succeed in doing original long-form comedy?" says Fuchs. "The three networks spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to do original comedy, and one show succeeds every two years...
Wooster's rendition of "Sonny Boy," accompanied with tap dancing, was done with enough finesse to warrant a snicker, but by the time he started into "Every Cloud Has a Silver lining," the snicker had faded to a grunt. Duke builds up an expectation for greatness that is just not realized. The rest of the play moves at such a schizophrenic pace that this sluggish type of ending leaves a bad taste in the mouth...
...does not take kindly to reruns by its geriatric set. Witness Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes and Ali. Foreman, the boxer turned preacher, is older than the other ex-champs who tried in vain to return. Some of them embarrassed themselves. Some of them got flattened. Boxing experts snicker that there are only two kinds of opponents Foreman can be counted on to defeat. One kind is hooked up to a respirator. The other can be found lying on a sesame-seed bun in the company of pickles and catsup...
...protagonist was burning pianos and churning up teenage hormones. Accelerated change of that sort produces the kind of broad fundamental irony that moviemakers who take themselves seriously always love. How dumb we were. And so recently. How easy it is to encourage the audience to join in a superior snicker at simpler times, simpler souls...