Word: snidely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most people in Europe couldn't care less what Clinton does in his private life. Here he is judged, as he should be, by what he accomplishes as President of the U.S. The snide jokes and questions do not center on Clinton and his sex life but on the circus the American media have made of things. No one can understand why Lewinsky has any relevance to the workings of the American government. STEPHEN HOLODINSKY Bonn...
...Oval Office with my liking and admiration for him fortified. So I was shocked when my son returned from a 22-month bike trip around the world and told me that the ordinary people he met all over the globe reacted to his saying he was an American with snide jokes or questions about his President's sex life. It will be very hard for the President to ask the American people to look beyond mere material comfort to harder challenges when he used the resources of his office, that same Oval Office where I was impressed...
...Paula Jones has got herself a new nose, I hope it turns out to be, as my mother would have put it, cute as a button. Self-improvement is the American way. I was not among those who made snide remarks about Linda Tripp's makeover. Just because your behavior calls to mind Victor McLaglen in The Informer, there is no law that says you have to look like him as well...
...even as her contract expired. Her teary announcement to her staff members that she was moving on left many of them depressed and uneasy about the magazine's future. One editor offered what may be the ultimate tribute to the solemnity of the moment: "I didn't hear anything snide today." Handicapping the odds on who the next editor might be, while gently dropping one's own name into the mix, quickly became Manhattan's favorite parlor game...
...that the American public is sick of having gore and mayhem shoved down its throat by the media. The Chicken Soup series creates an alternative to the usual media fare. We offer hope where there is despair, comfort where there is pain, tears and laughter instead of sarcasm and snide remarks, and inspiration to help our readers overcome the challenges they face. It's correct that our stories do not moralize, but it is wrong to say they provide "uplift without morals." PATTY HANSEN, Co-Author Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul Newport Beach, Calif...