Word: snobbism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasoned reviews have been informed by his eclectic musical tastes, which range from '60s rock to Broadway melodist Andrew Lloyd Webber, about whom he wrote a 1988 TIME cover story as well as a book, Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life & Works (Abrams). "Classical music suffers from an image of snobbism," says Walsh. "I've always tried to make it approachable -- to present it to the reader, not as a rarefied art form but as something everybody can participate...
This goes a long way toward explaining the popularity of the Simpsons and other Fox shows at Harvard. It is essentially a safe, easy kind of condescension or snobbism. The kids in Beverly Hills 90210 get mocked for cheesiness, Married With Children for stupidity, Studs for its total idiocy. We laugh at them for being so lame, and our own lives look much better by comparison...
Some regional vintners complain that their wines are victims of snobbism. Critics rave about the Champagne-like sparklers made by Willy Frank, whose father Konstantin was the first to prove that vinifera grapes could be grown in New York's Finger Lakes area. The praise hasn't helped sales much. "The New Yorker has almost a reverse chauvinism against anything made in New York," Frank says. "I have shipped more wine to Tokyo than to New York City." Chaddsford's Eric and Lee Miller have been luckier in persuading local restaurants, including Philadelphia's highly rated...