Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Holland's talents shine in the scenes of her rape, on her 11th birthday by a white town elder, and her mother's murder. She has an infallible ear for the emotional pace of a scene, letting the horror be just blunt enough for just long enough, then segueing into the release of laughter. She finds the right detail: the raped child from the shacks eyeing an exquisite carved bouquet on the banister as she struggles back downstairs; dogs sniffing at a patch of the mother's burnt skin scraped onto the sidewalk. Her dialogue can jolt the audience with...
...self-generated student magazines. The danger is that it uses the means of reasoned scholarship, together with a dash of compassion and a hint of counselling, not to get at the Truth, or even to advance in dialogue toward a more comprehensive understanding, but rather as a weapon, a blunt instrument, with which to beat a discussion into submission. The piece is akin to an intellectual mugging, and all the more disturbing as the dirty deed is done in the name of Western civilization and in behalf, in part, of the Christian Church...
Miyazawa's talk on trade remains blunt. The U.S. deficit with Japan has declined from a peak of $57 billion in 1987 to $41.1 billion in 1990, and Miyazawa credits both nations with engineering the impressive 28% drop. But he says that shrinking the gap further will be difficult because the U.S. economy has become overly dependent on Japanese imports. "The U.S. could buy less from Japan and more from the European Community," he says, "and American industry should step up its efforts to be more competitive...
...blunt style that particularly annoyed White House chief of staff John Sununu, Seidman declared, "I talked to them about getting out of here so they could put in somebody of their own. The next thing I knew, I heard the White House leaking that the President was trying to force me out." Fearing for the FDIC's independence, Seidman decided to stay. Such frank talk may have been the bane of Bush, but it could be the stuff of stardom. Starting this week, Seidman will serve as correspondent and commentator for CNBC, the financially focused cable channel...
...daydreamers become fixated on reuniting the best dancers among them, a onetime romantic couple who were always outsiders in this prim upper-middle-class world: a girl who was much richer than the rest and a handsome "Irishman on the make" who was much poorer, Roman Catholic, and a blunt social climber. These two roles are double-cast to make the many flashbacks more vivid and to allow for an evocative reunion number, choreographed by Graciela Daniele, in which the two elders dance simultaneously in the present, in the past and, reaching across time, with their own younger selves...