Word: snobs
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Winning the Pulitzer will give Power an added platform—apart from her academic position—from which to stress the moral imperative of recognizing crimes against humanity. This “snob factor,” she says, will give her the opportunity to speak to the gatekeepers, though she plans to “think strategically about how to use the battles...
...Good question. I don’t know. Oprah? Martha Stewart, after she gets out of prison? Whoever it is will be rich, privileged and probably a snob...
DIED. SIR HARDY AMIES, 93, Savile Row designer who clothed Queen Elizabeth for four decades; in Langford, England. London's most successful couturier (with model Faraday, above), he was a self-described snob who disdained strapless gowns and resisted critics who would have the Queen look more chic, insisting her understated style suited her. "I'm for elitism and its survival," he said...
...laughs. "Right." Instead, Levin goes straight to the source. His rye bread is par-baked in New York ovens (with New York water), then finished in Hong Kong. His salami comes from the famed Katz's delicatessen. And the bagels-which will fool even the most hardened Manhattan bagel-snob-are baked daily with dough shipped from H&H Bagels. "Why be New York-style? Why not be authentic New York?" he asks. "You can do that now. It's a global village...
Satisfying your superhero jones can be tough when you're a comix snob like me. Finding a book with the right combination of highbrow intelligence and lowbrow kicks has gotten nearly impossible. Fortunately the world still has Alan Moore, the English comicbook writer who first achieved stateside acclaim in the 1980s with "The Watchmen." For the last couple of years Moore has been the principle writer of multiple titles under the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm Productions (an imprint of DC Comics, a subsidiary of TIME.com's parent corporation, AOL Time Warner). Out of the various projects, "League...