Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Catherine Robe expertly plays Helena, a friend of Alison's who comes to stay and breaks up the group's dynamic, eventually seducing Jimmy. Robe emphasizes the subtle acidity of her lines, painting Helena as a cold, blunt, curt, savvy and slightly conniving woman. But Robe is also attentive to Helena's sense of moral obligation, rendering Helena's complexities exciting to watch...
...question, there's a huge disparity there, and it's perhaps the biggest personal challenge I have--I've gotta want to come to play every night," he says. "Let's be blunt: over the past two years, in the games that haven't gotten the hype or the publicity, I have a history of not coming to play...
...believe in being blunt, even though sometimes that can get you in trouble," he says "Criticizing yourself and realizing that you sometimes do things wrong is one of the keys to becoming a better player"--and a better person, he might...
...highest dropout rates and the lowest test scores in the state. Fewer than half the city's ninth- graders graduate four years later; 95% of fourth-graders need remedial help. Acting superintendent Eddie Davis, whose two children attend Hartford schools, is blunt about the crisis. "Our performance is down, our costs are up," he says. "Our 2,000-odd teachers make on average $52,000 and rank in the top five in the state in terms of salaries. Yet we rank 112th out of 169 towns in terms of direct expenditures on instructional materials...
President Clinton has been uncharacteristically blunt in outlining the economics behind the mission to restore democracy. "The American people have already expended almost $200 million to support them [Haitian refugees], to maintain the economic embargo and the prospect of millions and millions more being spent every month for an indefinite period of time loom ahead unless...