Word: snickered
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...work couldn't transcend its parochial appeal. Through it all, he's struggling to sustain the punk/anarchist/anti-war/anti-mass media/manic image that makes him the icon of every angst-ridden teenager and 20-something in the chrysanthemum kingdom. "Life is beauty," says Takahashi with a smile that vacillates between gangster-like snicker and angelic beam. "But it's pain as well...
...Crimson told this story as a talk show would, revealing little details at which the audience at home could snicker mercilessly—details that are not worth reporting, and details that are clearly the manifestations of a disordered mind: a job at Chase Manhattan, studies at Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge consecutively, a bag full of tailored business clothing. The article resulted in a mockery of this woman and of her disorder by cross-checking her clearly delusional reports to the alumni newsletters, reporting them as fact, and then exposing her lies as though they could have ever been believed...
...next day, Friday, the congress opens and Jiang makes his speech. It's a good thing the Party is willing to live with apathy, given that its leader seriously proclaims banalities such as: "Ensure stability as a principle of overriding importance, and balance reform, development and stability." Chinese might snicker at home, but they can't show their outrage or frustration in public. So the Party gets away with it?to the chagrin of the Democracy Wall dissident. At home, he still has a memento of that wall: a single brick he saved before the last bit was torn down...
...Don’t gawk while you’re in Sigma Chi’s stately house...hmm...[snicker...
...interview to air this week on ABC's Primetime Thursday, the singer turned actress turned disco diva rejects the blather about the glory of gathering wisdom and laugh lines: "I would love to lie, but I don't think there's anything good about it." Lest one snicker over her attempts to fight aging with nips and tucks, Cher sets the record straight: "I've had the same cheeks my entire life. No butt lifts. No ribs removed." Steinem has said she has only had her eyes done; so does this mean they're not so different after...