Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems that the author himself became a frequent figure at the Parisian salons and dinners, despite the fact that he frequently referred to himself as a "bear" or a "hermit," hibernating away from the bourgeois society which he held in great disdain...
...quip was a typical Reagan play on his ostensible disdain for Washington and for the traditional politician's obsession with power. In a profoundly personal way, Friday's Inaugural will be an even more wonderful day for the nation's oldest President. Eight years ago, many skeptics predicted that he would have to go West for good after one failed term. Instead, he heads home on his own schedule, with a strong sense that he has done what he came to do. Despite the minefield awaiting his successor, Reagan believes, as he grandly put it the other day, "A revolution...
This revival, staged by Gregory Mosher, director of the Lincoln Center Theater, cannot entirely recapture the liberating novelty that the first audiences found in Wilder's disdain for sets, props and other devices of illusion. But the production vividly evokes both his playful belittling of narrative and the irresistible appeal of his storytelling. Monologist Spalding Gray brings a feisty and brooding quality to the customarily benign stage manager: if his halfhearted attempts at a New Hampshire accent fail, the laughs he evokes are both frequent and authentic to the text. Film actors Eric Stoltz (Mask) and Penelope Ann Miller (Biloxi...
...which served him so well in staking out his new financial realm, may have been what led him to allegedly illegal tactics. Says journalist Connie Bruck, author of the 1988 book on Drexel titled The Predator's Ball: "For years he's been a law unto himself. He has disdain for the way the world works. He figures he's waging a holy...
...Armenian organizations gain sophistication, popular resentment is growing at Moscow's apparent disdain for nationalist grievances. While accounts of Stalin's crimes have been splashed across the pages of leading Soviet newspapers, the Armenian crisis has virtually been ignored. Pravda has given only vague accounts of the Yerevan demonstrations; when articles have appeared, correspondents have condemned the protests as the work of "corrupt elements" and "extremists." Says Ter-Petrossian: "What we are doing is what Gorbachev says he wants: people participating in government decisions." Adds another Armenian who regularly attends the Theater Square meetings: "He should be proud...