Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most notorious of these, the one that in 1980 helped launch the whole trend toward social realism for kids, is Hiroshima No Pika, a shockingly graphic picture book about the dropping of the atom bomb and the horrible deaths that ensued. The book is not coy about who caused the suffering...
...Michael Janes), Scroop (Randall Jaynes) and Grey (James Framer) seem particularly flimsy. For the most part, supporting performances are strong. The clown Pistol (Ben Halley) and the wimp Fluellen (Thomas Derrah) are able to grab the audience's attention. Lenore Chaix, as Princess Katherine of France, is as voluptuous, coy and well, French, as any king could hope...
...down deity ducks with a coy chuckle andsays, "Barbra answers that kind of question muchbetter than I do. She's really good at it." Herwords pay homage to a goddess never scaled-down bythe Pudding--only by The Crimson...
...woman who left Vinnie for Carter and James Gammon as the disgraced racing official) huffs and puffs but can't blow any life into these windy three hours. Shepard's wordplay lacks the wit and profane poetry of more accomplished practitioners like David Mamet. Simpatico is both coy and lazy: it invites the audience to fill in the gaps, to look for meanings. No thanks...
While Kristen Clarke continues her coy dance with the melanin theory, the hard work of attacking The Bell Curve on the facts has begun. The recent New Republic gave an indication of how seriously critics are working the book over. And serious faults are emerging in its logic...