Word: snipings
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There is more cause to snipe at Brooks. Some of his material--especially a sequence involving Count Basie and his Orchestra--is remarkably similar to Woody Allen films; He seems gratuitously to use the sort of language that he could not use in 1968 and 1970 ("Provincial putz" and "Teutonic twat," to cite two examples); he has trouble ending scenes smoothly...
...Allen probably really means it when he says he believes only in sex and death. This undercuts some of his punch. The future sets up America's excesses, and Allen knocks them down with simple irreverence, a refusal to take them seriously. There's no room for the subtle snipe when the targets are set up like sitting ducks...
...once - leaping, squatting, strutting, eyes popping, cakewalking at treble speed, as if she were strobe-lit from the inside. Midler has, as the French say, a world on her balcony, and it threatened to topple right out of her purple satin slip as she flounced across the stage to snipe at a mix-up by her band with dime store hauteur: "This act is shabbay, I'm telling you; tray shabbay...
...Masters. Julian Coolidge of Lowell and Chester Greenough of Dunster, in which the new administrators assured undergraduates that students and tutors would be served the same food "by the same waitresses," and that formal attire would not be required at dinner. Nonetheless, when opportunity presented itself, the temptation to snipe, was irresistible. In January, 1930, the front page displayed an interview with Professor R.E. Rogers '09, who declared "It is my belief that the Harvard House Plan is the result of the despairing conviction that the college is disintegrating." Mr. Rogers, The Crimson explained, believed that fraternities were the answer...
...State set out some guidelines intended to help Frenchmen decide if they had a nom ridicule-a ridiculous, insulting or otherwise unappealing surname-that they could legally change. In the field of animals, from which a number of French surnames are taken, a Monsieur Duck, Cow, Camel, Ass or Snipe would be allowed to change his name, but a Monsieur Ox, Bull, Goat, Nightingale or Leopard would not. Nouns such as tripe, cheese, cemetery and cuckold, and adjectives like hideous and ugly were frowned on as surnames; but unaccountably, villain and pimp were acceptable. The council also suggested that people...