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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their lives across a bridge out of the borough. They. Are. Stupid! They, and you the viewer, are supposed to believe that this huge creature - whose stride spans several city blocks, and who could get across the East River in about three steps - is some sort of snob who wouldn't be caught dead in Brooklyn. (But his victims would. That tail whips out of the water and snaps the Brooklyn Bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corliss on Cloverfield: The Blair Witch Reject | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

...drinking game out of the contradictions in the Harvard debate team’s speeches alone—but I suspect this is a calculated trade-off. After all, we’re talking about a film here, not a philosophy paper. Even a dyed-in-the-wool culture snob such as yours truly has to permit a bit of slack in exchange for a watchable movie. In the final analysis, the film’s myriad of merits derive from its high brow repartee, its majestic visual representation of an African-American South as intellectual as it is sensuous...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Great Debaters | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...couldn’t do my work for CNN if I was a complete snob about this. The challenge is to invest these cases with some of your knowledge,” he said...

Author: By Nini S. Moorhead, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Journalists, A Look at Celebrity Law Cases | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...beer drinker carries a stigma. If you abstain from alcohol—“even beer?!”—then you’re labeled a wuss. If you drink, but opt for something else, than you run the risk of being considered a liquor snob. And it’s hard not to come out of the closet as a non-beer drinker. The Queen’s Head—Harvard’s gleaming, retro social space du jour—has a beer-centric menu and a calendar of events that?...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles and Emma M. Lind | Title: A Beer a Day… | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...elitist? A snob? Far from it. I want everyone to appreciate and experience the variety and beauty of beer, regardless of gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity or race. Vote with your glass: We don’t need less beer—we need better beer...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles and Emma M. Lind | Title: A Beer a Day… | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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