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...editor before working in Washington for Hearst and Newsweek. He was a regular panelist on CBS's Face the Nation for nearly five years, then returned to his home town. After becoming WBBM-TV news director, he switched to the network's AM radio outlet in 1968. Snide and thunderous on the air, Madigan at home in his lakefront high-rise is a man of quiet humor, Irish-pol anecdotes and a smile as wide as the Dan Ryan Expressway...
Huber and cohort Lauren Norton started a team two years ago at Concord Academy when women's ice hockey drew little more than snickers and snide remarks. But the impact of Title IX has changed all that--nobody guffawed when the fresh women tandem discussed their plans with Athletic Department officials. Indeed, prior to this year's initiative, plans for the new hockey rink (if and when it is built), included a women's ice hockey locker room...
When Jerry Jeff said something about grits, country living and the good life, everybody started whooping and hollering in agreement. During a break, my roommate from New York City yawned incessantly and made snide comments about rednecks, but I struck up a conversation with the girl sitting next...
...future is far more important and promising for Gay people than the past, but the record deserves a clear reading. A brief review of past inhumanity also indicates why snide jokes and clever ridicule can ultimately have very ugly results. This is also why many people may find anti-homosexual humor less than funny. In a similar way, Black people tend to react to "jokes" about slavery, and Jews to "humor" about ovens...
...last comment would not always have seemed snide. Fifteen years ago, the criticism in the following passage from The Quiet American, a novel many people feel prefigures the whole of the U.S.'s senseless devastation of Vietnam, would not have seemed painful. A Vietnamese woman named Phuong asks the British reporter, 'Are there skyscrapers in London...