Word: snidely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again." Efforts to psych the opposition ran all the way from intentional on-court talking (and even smoking) to giving wrong driving directions to teams headed for a remote court, so that the enemy would be more than 20 minutes late and thus forfeit the match. Off-putting snide remarks, of the sort now openly urged by many books as part of tennis strategy, flourished. ("Are you paired with Sue? You'll never win.") In Class A, where some of the best women tennis players in the city compete, a woman with a reputation for making bad line-ball calls...
...Drakestein (the couple's chateau). German-born Claus, who once served in Hitler's army, has been labeled the "Red Feldwebel" (sergeant) by Conservatives and supporters of Prince Bernhard. At a recent diplomatic banquet in The Hague, Beatrix was overheard scolding a foreign diplomat for his snide remarks about the Soviets' disastrous grain harvest. "Why," she said, "should one always emphasize the Soviet Union's shortcomings...
Oldenburg's humor comes from his awareness and appreciation of the human element that supports his art. So his drawings can be hilarious, but they are never glib, or snide. A sketch such as Fagends in Hyde Park is funny because of the innocence and incongruity of the vision; the wit in seeing the bristles of a typewriter eraser as broccoli lies in yoking two seemingly disconnected things...
Purists might complain that Hester Street presents an inaccurate picture of New York Jewish ghettoes at the turn of the century. This is true, but immaterial. According to this film, no one lived in squalor, and the worst aspect of the sweatshops was an occasional snide comment from the boss. The photographer Jacob Riis, who depicted the terrible conditions of living in New York's Jewish ghetto at the turn of the century, would have been horrified by the distortion in this film. But rather than a scathing social portrait of the era, Silver has set out to create...
...evidence that fiction told from a woman's point of view deserves the same accord as that told from a man's must come from women writers themselves. And, again, it does. The snide comment quoted above on the "feminine prose manner" comes from the inane anonymous introduction to a newly-reprinted collection of short stories by Tess Slesinger. The stories themselves, originally published during the thirties, stand in beautiful repudiation...