Word: snideness
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...bile that a U. S. District Court judge let flow from his mouth is much more astounding. Hoffman's refusal to learn defense attorney Leonard Weinglass' name-the Judge called him Weinstein, Feinstein, Weineruss, Fineglass, Weinramer, and a host of others-emerges as only one part of a generally snide approach to the defense. In the same vein, Hoffman alluded to William Kunstler's "comic book defense" and embroiled himself in the type of petty harassment one would expect of Abbie Hoffman...
...Western Reserve. That day the newspapers in Cleveland were announcing the happy news that a new contract of $1.3 billion had just been awarded by the Department of Defense to the General Motors Tank Division in Cleveland which makes the Sheridan tank. The newspaper announcements spoke of some snide comments on the Sheridan tank that had shortly before been voiced in Congress. I wondered what was meant. As I understand it from my reading since, there is some trouble with the way the ammunition fits the gun in the Sheridan tank, such that firing the gun sometimes kills...
...taste to restrict their expressive means to their slight ends, which would give us at least well-crafted films. By lending directors the license of artists the current "aesthetic" prevents them from even learning their craft competently. Francis Ford Coppola is praised for sloppy work while Vincent Canby makes snide cracks about an artist like Douglas Sirk...
...deux with three different ballerinas (Marnee Morris, Patricia McBride, Karin von Aroldingen). The mood of each dance is bittersweet romantic; yet they are wholly different in shape, tempo and feeling. And Balanchine's leaping, exactingly athletic solo for D'Amboise, in Liza, should forever dispel the snide rumor that he does not choreograph well for male dancers...
...coroner. In Marlowe-an adaptation of Chandler's The Little Sister-he follows the spoor of a runaway brother who leaves ice picks in people's necks. On the trail, the shamus uncovers some California tourist attractions (Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno), some lethal gangsters, and the mandatory snide police lieutenant (Carroll O'Connor...