Word: snob
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would claim that Harvard students idolize all assigned reading indiscriminately. We have a tendency to treat Poe more seriously than Stephen King, even if we like King better. A strangely convoluted snob appeal here permits us to submerge our own tastes, at least in class, so that what we like and what we don't like become hopelessly confused. When that happens it's hard for education to be very meaningful...
...Yeah, Mr. Big Shot Snob. Could you believe that guy. He talks to Russian guys on his show like they were best buddies...
...industry's top snob, Wylie makes it his duty to malign agents who represent books he considers vulgar. He has called Janklow the literary equivalent of a heroin dealer for handling novels by authors like Judith Krantz. "They have no lasting value and two years after they've been published are worth nothing," he says with a Grottlesex stammer...
...show, which opened last week amid a hubbub of publicity, blends snob appeal with raw marquee value. The playwright, David Mamet, won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his previous Broadway effort, Glengarry Glen Ross, and has since become a hot film writer (The Untouchables) and director (House of Games). The shy but surprising secretary is played by Rock Star Madonna (Material Girl, Like a Virgin), whose program biography cites "13 consecutive top five recordings, bettered only by Elvis and the Beatles." While reviewers seemed transfixed by the question "Can she act?" -- most said no -- audiences seemed not to care. Advance...
...impressed." Claudia is also formidable. Her only child Lisa cowers in the knowledge that she is too "pallid" to be a worthy offspring of this latter-day Artemis. Lisa's husband is understandably terrified of his mother-in-law too. "Damp handshake, damp opinions," sighs Claudia with a snob's sere accuracy. "At the very sight of me his vowels falter...