Word: browbeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seen a play that I had done and decided that I was his dream director. Bill Finn is a very determined fellow, and so he browbeat me into doing it. He once stood on Stephen Sondheim's doorstep until he came home and forced his way into his house to play his music for him. He went to Williams College and so did Sondheim. So I guess he felt that was all the introduction he needed...
...PROBLEM WITH FEEL-GOOD MOVIES is that they browbeat the viewer with their strident optimism; like a Stalinist nanny, they shout, "Feel good!" Such a one is STRICTLY BALLROOM, an audience hit at several festivals. In this Australian musical comedy, West Side Story meets Saturday Night Fever, and everyone -- especially the thoughtful moviegoer -- ends up exhausted. On a ballroom dance floor, director Baz Luhrmann sets in motion all manner of human and cinematic gargoyles. You've never seen so many fisheye close-ups of goofy faces caked with bad makeup. Watching the film is like being condemned to perform...
Rudenstine said he met with 45 Law School professors this summer "to talk--not to browbeat, but to suggest what might be done...
...political objective: refocusing the media spotlight on his message to moderate voters that he is unafraid to deliver unpopular messages to important Democratic constituencies, including blacks. Jackson, who has been groping for a way to elbow into the campaign, obtained a grievance that he can use to browbeat Clinton for concessions. Lenin is supposed to have written, "Capitalists are so hungry for profits that they will sell us the rope to hang them with." Souljah has reformulated that maxim in light of the go-for-it '90s. A few days before her appearance at the Rainbow convention, she admonished...
Legal experts disagree on whether last week's ruling will give authorities a freer hand to browbeat suspects. "Many years ago the police became convinced that they don't need violence to get people to confess," says Yale Kamisar, a criminal-law expert at the University of Michigan. But the head-banging style of police interrogation has not disappeared. A dramatic example: the case of Barry Lee Fairchild, a black man with an IQ of 62 sentenced to death for the 1983 murder of a white Air Force nurse in Little Rock. Lawyers for Fairchild, who are pursuing an appeal...