Word: snickers
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...paneling, cracking plaster and flaking paint, Moscow's eight-year-old Ukraine Hotel looks almost as if it had been built for Mosfilm's movie of War and Peace. While party officials sing the praises of Orgalit, a kind of Red Masonite widely used for doors, Muscovites snicker: "Builders stick to it-but door handles...
...famous face and hopes for the best. He seldom gets it. Loren looks stupid in a stupid part. Schell, in a role demanding virility and violence, behaves like a hysterical girl. March, for want of anything better to play, plays March. Wagner at least gives the customers something to snicker at. His sunny California accent sounds gloriously silly in foggy old Hamburg, and when he walks in to take over the family firm, he looks wildly out of place. It's as if Prince Valiant had come barging, bright-eyed and brainless, into the big board room at General...
...Mehta's approach is refreshingly direct. Although he has been blind since the age of three, he courageously taught himself to navigate the world without benefit of cane or canine, studied at Pomona College and Oxford. Stopping off in London recently, and finding philosophers bickering and historians snicker-sneering at each other from behind the learned journals, he resolved to talk to them all and see what the fuss was about...
...should leave here convinced that we're not going to leer and snicker about these rules any longer," said Gail E. Thain '64, president of Whitman Hall. "The circus atmosphere around the rules, plus the snide comments and over-dramatized conflict that accompanied the rules last Spring has made it impossible to enforce the rules...
...hard, but Britain's Peter Sellers is remarkably cunning about his funning: even when he's trying to get a laugh, he never really seems to be trying, so when he fails he never really seems to have failed. Which may explain why, in this 25-minute snicker at the usual British gumshoe flicker, a miss is as good as a smile...