Word: snideness
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...Your cover story on Buddhism was at times hasty, flip, sarcastic, snide, sniping, pompous, preachy, and in bad taste...
...that he's rundown. Each day Bobo gets a massive dose of vitamin E, swigs pure wheat-germ oil, eight raw egg yolks, a jigger of thiamine and a 20-mg. jolt of male hormones. Each day also brings more letters, aphrodisiac recipes and snide phone calls from citizens who don't like what Bobo is doing to their city's image. Many Seattleites volunteer remedies: "Send Fifi away on a separate vacation," wrote one woman. "It works for me every time. Bobo will love her when she comes back." A man who lives on Puget Sound...
...Weekenders [May 22], I feel compelled to tell Gunther that all is not lost! Why, our weekends are filled with meaningful things like hanging clothes, doing dishes, writing reports, mowing lawns, changing diapers, answering mail, hollering at children, pulling weeds, charcoaling hamburgers, dashing to church and watching TV (with snide comments, so people will know we're really too intelligent for TV). If Mr. Gunther knows of any place here in Ohio where some of that deplorable sin and dreary, hollow fun is going on, could he please let us know-soon? If possible, before next weekend...
...outstanding as the delicate Mary Garga, who slips into prostitution after Shlink rebuffs her. Dan Morgan creates a fittingly inscrutable Shlink, and John Lasell acts as harried and erratic as a man in George Garga's situation ought to be. Vernon Blackman, Paul Benedict, and Dustin Hoffman are wonderfully snide and easy-going in the roles of Skinny, Worm, and Babson, Shlink's strongarm...
...G.O.P. defeat in 1960 was, of course, Nixon's performance in the debates; but many pros assign Lodge some of the blame too. Particularly irritating to them was his habit of napping each afternoon, regardless of the press of his schedule. Said Goldwater, in a slightly snide aside during last week's primary-night postmortem: "We can't beat the Democrats with a man who campaigns only an hour...