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A "cold, contemptuous, and interminable Oedipal saga," says the Village Voice 's J. Hoberman, "just a big, static snooze."
Thirty years ago, when John Kenneth Galbraith published The New Industrial State , he was sure he knew where the modern economy was going and was contemptuous of economists who clung to their old ideas about the primacy of markets.
2. Greeting; form of address, semi-humorously or strongly contemptuous: What alibi now, Fxxxface?
While Los Angeles aims an occasional rhetorical jab at the left, Rieff's second book on Miami, The Exile , was an act of defiant apostasy, sympathetic to the Cuban émigrés' sufferings and aspirations, and contemptuous of the Castro regime.
A front-page LAT story reports that military authorities, concerned by a recent spate of public Lewinsky-driven criticisms of President Clinton by military personnel--in service-oriented publications and in the WSJ and on the Internet--are threatening service members with punishment if they utter "contemptuous words" about their Commander-in-Chief.