Word: snidely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draft board does not like me Mrs.-, the fifty-five-year-old secretary and dottering mainstay of the board, continually answers my snide inquiries and diatribes with short formal notes on mimeographed forms. I don't even have the satisfaction that they take my hate notes seriously. They claim they simply administer the system, following directives from Washington. But they are humorless, and totally without compassion...
...imagination without you ever realizing how it all came about. The style and general format of the novel are easy and without interruption; yet somehow, amid the general flow of things, realities are contorted, perspectives tiltcrazily, and the whole tone of the novel can shuttle back and forth from snide humor to outright malevolence. "All is jive," says Mr. Jiveass Nigger, and from the beginning of the book until its end, you're never quite sure if you might not just be the one who's being jived...
...bile that a U. S. District Court judge let flow from his mouth is much more astounding. Hoffman's refusal to learn defense attorney Leonard Weinglass' name-the Judge called him Weinstein, Feinstein, Weineruss, Fineglass, Weinramer, and a host of others-emerges as only one part of a generally snide approach to the defense. In the same vein, Hoffman alluded to William Kunstler's "comic book defense" and embroiled himself in the type of petty harassment one would expect of Abbie Hoffman...
...Western Reserve. That day the newspapers in Cleveland were announcing the happy news that a new contract of $1.3 billion had just been awarded by the Department of Defense to the General Motors Tank Division in Cleveland which makes the Sheridan tank. The newspaper announcements spoke of some snide comments on the Sheridan tank that had shortly before been voiced in Congress. I wondered what was meant. As I understand it from my reading since, there is some trouble with the way the ammunition fits the gun in the Sheridan tank, such that firing the gun sometimes kills...
...taste to restrict their expressive means to their slight ends, which would give us at least well-crafted films. By lending directors the license of artists the current "aesthetic" prevents them from even learning their craft competently. Francis Ford Coppola is praised for sloppy work while Vincent Canby makes snide cracks about an artist like Douglas Sirk...