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Barlow is a noted visionary, and he is famously derisive of people less insightful than himself (a group which, in his opinion, includes roughly everyone).
The word was certainly hard to escape in the Torbay area in the early 1970s, and by then often had a derisive flavour, as friction increased between young locals and young summer visitors.
The case against Dowd, taken up lately by Michael Wolff in New York magazine ("she is derisive, mocking, hyperbolic, bitchy") and by Dan Kennedy in the Boston Phoenix ("Call her our most celebrated bad columnist") was most cogently laid out in a 1992 piece by Katherine Boo in the Washington Monthly . At the time, Dowd was still a reporter, following the presidential campaign after having covered the Bush and Reagan White Houses.
Garry Trudeau, Bush wrote, was "a little elitist who is spoiled, derisive, ugly and nasty."
Hecklers offered derisive amendments: "Impeachment Avenue" was proposed.