Word: boorishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of Haines' comments to the world feel like "wisecracks"--his trademark brand of defensive humor--and it's hard to get a feeling that we understand this man's inner life. Even less information remains about Shields, and what reminiscences his friends do offer sound rather more boorish than endearing. (Rumor has it that Haines' estrangement from Cole Porter, for instance, was precipitated by Porter's catching Jimmie undecorously having sex with a sailor in the bushes during one of his elegant soirees...
...several characters encounter a new love or are reunited with an old one. It would be nice to describe this as a flimsy pretext for a batch of Simon gag lines, except that the gags are too lame even for Simon in a nostalgic haze. One character is a boorish Italian stud with a penchant for malapropisms (he calls Roman gladiators "gladiolas"), and the play's comic piece de resistance is, so help me, a bird's funeral. Simon, like Mamet, is content to trot out his characters two at a time for a series of unfulfilling, barely connected dialogues...
...women of Gion are somewhat indifferent to their male customers, the men are all too aware of the women. Many men are boorish and cruel around geisha, and geisha are expected to be subservient to men in everything, but men place geisha on a sort of erotic pedestal. They will pay exorbitant amounts for a geisha's virginity, and the sums they pay to become a geisha's danna, or exclusive sexual partner, could support a family in many cases. The danna is the key distinguishing feature between a geisha and a prostitute; the effort and expense involved in becoming...
...commonly believed that those who disagree with liberal truisms must somehow be ignorant or boorish. It is incredible that the image of the Republicans as the party without ideas persists to this day. There has been an incredible increase in recent years of conservative think tanks and intellectual publications, such as The Weekly Standard, which is edited by Bill Kristol '73. However, this thoughtful, non-liberal voice is virtually ignored. Meanwhile, the American intelligentsia is so wedded to liberalism that it cannot understand anyone's choosing the elephant over the donkey, even though a majority of people (particularly in lower...
This clash between childbearing and choppers is the latest wrinkle in the military's painful efforts to integrate women into its ranks. Yet unlike the recent Army sexual-harassment charges that seek to squash boorish and sometimes illegal behavior, this case will test just how far the Army can stretch the rules for women--and whether that's a good idea. Any ruling that forces the Army to show more flexibility to its new mothers could also bring changes in the way the military deploys them--changes that could be a setback for hard-won gains in the fight...