Word: snubs
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...musical score. It was too much to expect that she would also have picked the Oscar ceremony's best decolletage, which clearly and defiantly belonged to Sally Kellerman (M *A* S*-H). The major surprise was the unwanted Oscar that went to Scott, whose well-publicized determination to snub Hollywood's "meat parade" was the butt of what passed for the evening's jokes. As for Scott himself, he slept through the televised ceremony at his New York farm; his sons woke him up to accept a mock substitute award from some friends: a statue of Abraham...
...impression in Washington after May that "Harvard would never ask him back and was treating him like a pariah." Kissinger's purpose in doing this, he said, was to discredit the professors who had criticized him and to gain political mileage among Washington Republicans who would regard a snub by Harvard professors as a sign of status and reliability...
...conspiracy to make the customer suffer. He discovers by accident that it is all the work of a company called "Creative Humiliation Associates, Ltd.," which teaches clerks how to "protect" themselves from the customers. "Well, we teach em the dynamics," the manager explains, "woolgathering, disdain, the snub direct and implied, Schadenfreude, the mechanics of sniggering, simple and compound exacerbation-the lot." But all is not lost-they're planning a course for customers as well...
Sometimes the disenchantment appears by indirection. In the U.N. anniversary week, that reality was made evident by one of the oldest diplomatic devices-a protocol snub. On the final evening of the eleven-day anniversary observance, President Nixon is pinching the visiting U.N. heads of state for a White House dinner. At any rate, when Zubin Mehta conducts the Ninth, Schiller's prophecy will still be unfulfilled...
...days earlier, Brezhnev had abruptly canceled his plans to visit Bucharest for the long-delayed signing of a new Soviet-Rumanian friendship pact, pleading a "catarrhal ailment." His subsequent appearance at the soccer match was designed to expose the respiratory disorder for exactly what it was: a calculated snub to Rumania's independent-minded Communist Party Leader Nicolae Ceausescu...