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...sound may be clean, but the Olivz lyrics are on the harsh side. Ganley cringes at the very mention of what he calls "mushy romance shit. Metal ballads. Aaarrgh!!!" Sometimes the lyrics are sarcastic, and other times they cross the line to snide. The Olivz only sliver of sentimentality is reserved for the subject of music itself, in lyrics like "God don't like on movie show/the people there live in make pretend/God loves his radio...
...Miss Manners" (syndicated, 1/29/92) Snide, but well-mannered Judith Martin seems at first glance unnecessary, since anyone etiquette-conscious enough to want to shovel through Martin's prose ought to know this stuff already. Besides, few columnists as smug as Martin--she refers to herself in sentences as "Miss Manners"--can claim as wide an audience...
...Reviewers look at women's commercial fiction in a different light [compared to men's commercial fiction]," Goudge said, commenting on the mixed response of critics, charges: She is bitter that "military potboilers" written by men like Tom Clancy receive acclaim while her own "romantic potboilers" are merely accorded snide remarks...
...make sure this page gets filled with superlative prose and, quite frankly, nobody else would agree to slap together 30 column inches for today's issue. I was going to co-write this piece with Associate Editorial Chair Tara A. Nayak '92, who often makes snide, irritating comments about my social life even though SHE HAS NO SOCIAL LIFE OF HER OWN, but Tara was too busy. No hard feelings, of course...
...they know Professor Hankins, he makes a lot of short, quick little witty comments or snide remarks," Gibel said...