Word: snidely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same students have produced The Salient, a right-wing newspaper that appe..rs twice monthly, combining extensive editorials and selective news coverage with snide cracks about Tip O'Neill's waistline and anything even resembling federal regulation...
...years in Congress, some feminists criticized her ambivalence on such issues as day care and abortion. Indeed, Grasso was always a reluctant feminist. Yet so solid was her reputation as a politician that when she ran for Governor in 1974, sex was not an issue, aside from a few snide remarks about a "Governess." The state was ready, in Grasso's words, for "somebody with determination who wants to work and does not want to put up with all the trappings of office." She won in a landslide...
...White House for a meeting with their opposite numbers in the Carter Administration. The standing-room-only crowd jammed a small auditorium usually used by the First Family to watch movies. Said one participant: "There was a smattering of rookie winners and losers, the type who muttered snide comments and made noticeable grimaces." But the top men urged harmony. White House Chief of Staff Jack Watson, who is overseeing the transition from the Carter side, opened with gallows humor: "Now we're going to have the exchange of prisoners." But he soon turned serious, telling the Carter people: "This...
...match, he has obviously given up on society, checked out. Yet in their conversation in Melvin's truck--the first scene of the movie--the bum emerges as more than a derelict. Melvin wants to sing Christmas carols; his guest doesn't. He is ungracious, cold and strangely snide for a man of such decrepit circumstance...
...high-tech attemp at naivete. The more the director tries to cover up Reeves with swelling music and "magical" sepia sequences, the more frustrated the audience becomes. Enough manipulation. Enough manufactured emotion. Enough preying on private fantasy. Enough of the self-congratulatory "love" of beer commercials and snide movies. It is best to leave this sort of film to future generations who, after they master time travel, may also devise the necessary base for a high-tech future;--the cryogenic suspension of disbelief, wonder, and surprise...