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...reverse psychology, Senate Democrats are thinking of demanding that Mrs. Clinton testify before the Senate, figuring that Republicans would only hurt themselves if they seemed to browbeat the President's wife. Republicans too are aware that if they move too fast they risk creating sympathy for Mrs. Clinton. And after all, that's something she finds hard to do for herself...
When a Senate panel decided to browbeat television executives about television violence this summer, most in the media pooh-poohed the proceedings as a political show. Calling the veiled threats mere posturing, the media declared that once the Senators involved had blown their rhetorical horns for the C-SPAN cameras, the issue would fade away...
...girl in the polka-dot dress." Several people remembered seeing her with Sirhan and another man at the hotel before $ the shooting. The RFK Tapes speculates that she was Sirhan's "baby-sitter," or control. The L.A.P.D., while purportedly trying to find the woman, tried harder to browbeat witnesses into changing their stories...
...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...