Word: comments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aura of spontaneity. William Hauptman's book also sustains Twain's deeper exploration of how a society could view slavery as normal and regard assisting a runaway as a crime against property. The story starts slowly and wobbles in tone, but achieves the original's deft mix of social comment, slapstick farce, heartrending melodrama and boy's own tale of danger. Big River, which started in regional theaters and seems likely to become a standard there, deserves its place on Broadway. It is gentle, thoughtful, slightly old-fashioned and much cleaner than the back of Huckleberry's perennially unwashed neck...
Indeed, there is perhaps no more humbling experience in the world than taking one's first comp piece to his adviser. Line by line, paragraph by paragraph, the writer is emasculated. The most one can hope for is a kind "This stinks," or some other system pathetic comment which does the job in one fell blow. Unfortunately, most compers are subjected to the slow method, slieing along word by word, phrase by phrase, with comments like "Oh, I don't know about this adjective," or "Have you ever really seen nuns wrestle...
...peaceful there have been allegations that the police at the Conservative Club meeting used executive force to clear a way for the diplomat as he as like Lowell Houses I consider these allegations to come from a reliable source I was not however, present, and so will not comment on that them I will comment on that part of the protest that involved lying down in front of the South African's car to prevent his leaving. Violence consists in the use of physical force to prevent an individual from doing what he is at liberty to do: this action...
...entrance to the Lowell House JCR with football style body blocks, and when they pounded on the windows they did a pretty good imitation of violence. They yelled "what is it you don't want to see" when we pulled shut the drapes--but I found more striking the comment made by the speaker that "their presence means there's something they don't want you to hear. "I'm not sure that's true, but certainly he did a better job of presenting his case than the demonstrators did of presenting their case...
...fashioned way," Republican Bob McEwen of Ohio told House Speaker Tip O'Neill in the heat of the debate. "You steal them." McEwen's remark was only one of the unseemly recriminations flung by House Republicans at their Democratic colleagues during the turbulent week. A relatively mild comment came from Minority Leader Robert Michel when ! he said the Democratic majority had "run roughshod" over the Republicans. Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas scoffed at the confrontational Republican theatrics, labeling performances like McEwen's "synthetic fury...