This was young Gene Siskel, twitting his rival, later partner-rival, Ebert. |
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His friends in New York, most of whom are writers and Broadway columnists, take an impious delight in twitting him about this. |
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As for snobbish derision, it is of noble ancestry, going back to Hamlet twitting Polonius, Pope, Swift, Wilde, Waugh: a line of scurrilous mirth whose slithering ambiguities make a Charlie of whoever can't keep up. |
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He also maintained that an occasional prank was essential to the spirit of journalism, and he enthusiastically abided by that belief, earning a reputation for twitting colleagues and candidates alike. |
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Aesop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. |
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