Word: boorishnesses
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Gorbachev's new men, for the most part, share his background of higher education and wide managerial experience. These new leaders look more like savvy executives than rumpled and boorish political hacks. Some have traveled to the West, and all are familiar with the latest American or European trends in their fields. Their success has usually been built on innovation rather than a slavish adherence to established methods...
SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH, THIS emerges as the turning point of the plot. The singer, Shug Avery (Margaret Avery), takes more of a liking to Celie than to the boorish Mister. This torch singer with a heart of gold teaches Celie how to have pride and how to stand up for herself. Gradually, under Shug's tutelage, Celie begins to initiate convert acts of household terrorism like spitting into drinks of water and lemonade. Shug also enjoys special privileges in the House of Mister-including getting the mail-and thus Celie is able to receive a long-awaited letter from her sister...
...leaders are concerned. I remember how we had an NSC briefing on Nikita Khrushchev back when he came to power in the '50s. We were told that he was going to be a temporary man because he drank too much, wore ill-fitting clothes, spoke bad Russian and had boorish manners...
...otherwise? And what is the harm in behaving well-or trying to behave well, or pretending to behave well-for selfish reasons? It was a kind of historical aberrancy for large numbers of people to think, as they did in the '60s, that life could be improved by boorish self-indulgence. And if there is now a return to more mannerly behavior, it is not necessarily a result of a new political conservatism. "I think it is the other way around," says Martin. "I think the political conservatism is based on people's dissatisfactions with the way they...
...audience awash in noisy enthusiasm. And on the point of drowning in home-grown chauvinism, it should be said. When it was over, the U.S. had won 20 firsts in 29 events (counting the unprecedented double as one). Raw-meat roars of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"-part innocent glee and part boorish excess-greeted the appearance of each U.S. swimmer and the bemedaling of each new national hero...