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...Quotidien de Paris called the caper "the snobbiest heist of the year." The snobs who were implicated, it now appears, were hard up for money despite their splendiferous ways. The baroness had been living by candlelight in her Left Bank apartment, not for romantic reasons but because the power had been turned off for nonpayment. The baron had survived by serving as a house sitter for a rich Venezuelan woman on the Avenue Foch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Haute Heist | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...wine, and the wine's flavor will change as if it had been aged one, two or even 10 years longer-thereby enabling the taster to assess the cellaring potential of the wine in an instant, a capability that has made the Clef du Vin the hottest (and snobbiest) accessory on the tasting circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

MODERATE $1,799 APPLE iBOOK The fairest of them all, this snow-white 5.2-lb. iBook could make Mac users out of the snobbiest Windows fans. With its high-res 12.1-in. screen, a drive that burns CDs and reads DVDs, and a jack that connects the computer to a TV, it dwarfs the competition. www.apple.com/ibook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buyer's Guide: Best Of Tech | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...that in World War II lonely American servicemen were wont to sigh, "I'd walk a mile for a Tamil." Now a new G.I. generation is entranced by Saigon's graceful Cochinchinoises but is surprised to find Asian girls just as sensitive to racial nuances as the snobbiest New Orleans debutante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DISCRIMINATION & DISCORD IN ASIA | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...snobbiest snob of all, says Lynes, is the Reverse Snob or Anti-Snob Snob: "This is the snob who finds snobbery so distasteful that he (or she) is extremely snobbish about nearly everybody since nearly everybody is a snob about something." Lynes finds himself guilty above all of Reverse Snobbism. "I am sure there is no greater snob," he concludes archly, "than a snob who thinks he can define a snob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minor Social Science | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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