Word: snob
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CREW--Some say crew is an elite sport. That's outrageous! Everyone knows crew is a snob sport. Still, it's hard to imagine a more beautiful event, especially on a sunny afternoon when the river looks almost clean. But you've got to wonder. If crew jocks love to row so much, why do the coaches insist on tying their feet into sneakers implanted in the boat? Is Carrie Graves afraid her athletes will jump ship...
...idea of his label achieving such wide circulation might reduce Armani stock in the snob market, but that would be fine with him. His clothes, from the beginning, have mocked that kind of lofty social stratification; they have always been meant, in every sense of the word, to be loose. They should be an ideal within easy reach. It is a goal that Armani, alone among great designers, has not only appreciated but implemented. One dream fits...
...spot a potential movie star in a body that photographed small, frail, bewildered. Fred and his sister Adele had danced through hit Broadway shows for a dozen years before Adele's marriage to an English lord, but to a movie mogul their stage success could be attributed to snob appeal and second-balcony myopia. In close-up Fred looked-and, in moments of earthbound repose, acted-like Stan Laurel. Thus the famous pronouncement on Astaire's first screen test...
...Entrepreneur Eric Glade, 26, for one. The Utah transplant has a flourishing sideline marketing the stickers and matching T shirts. The profits are private, but Glade says that retailers J.C. Penney's and Joslins have placed orders totaling $50,000. Now he is planning bumper crops in other "snob state" markets: California, Texas, Oregon, "anywhere there is a native population worried about the influx of outsiders...
Felix Frankfurter was a Jewish immigrant who became an Anglophile snob. He was a shameless flatterer who fired a secretary for flattering him. He could be sparkling, open and warm. He could also be strident, bitter and neurotic. Fifteen years after his death, Frankfurter remains one of the most influential jurists of this century. Yet while serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, he increasingly failed to sway his colleagues. He was an early supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a defender of Sacco and Vanzetti. Yet, as a Justice, he spent 24 years vainly trying to halt...