Word: flails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CHEAP thrill, but a thrill nonetheless, to watch conservatives flail about on the issue of U.S.-South African relations. Had the Republican set learned low to lose gracefully, we would not have had the distinct joy of reading some of the most tortured prose to dribble forth from right-wing pens since the supply-siders tried to convince us that tax cuts plus military buildup would equal balanced budget...
...time it seems the city has gone crazy: mobs of mothers flail at policemen, neighbors battle neighbors, young vandals hurl epithets and rocks and sometimes fire bombs. Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity, who issues the order to integrate, is harassed by death threats. Mayor Kevin White watches his political standing disintegrate on the eve of his intended run for the presidency. Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship sees his employees threatened, even shot at, as the paper goes after the story. Louise Day Hicks, the city council member who became the earth mother of the antibusing forces, stands by helplessly...
...throne, lacks the self-consciousness befitting lines like, "An aside, Ape! Did you never hear an aside." Even the phrasing of that line suggests a more cultivated mind, acutely aware of his dramatic presence. Although Beckett's characters are painfully aware of their calculated, verbal chess match, Akalaitis' flail at each other in fits of rage. A more cold-blooded conversation would make Hamm's torture of Clov seem more horrifyingly vicious and his occasional displays of genuine emotion more shockingly pathetic. While the characters should be raw, they need not be barbaric. They need not, as this Hamm does...
...Spanish. Mayor Raymond L. Flynn meets with Dukakis and the new Archbishop Bernard F. Law '53 in a highly publicized conference on bringing the city together. The Boston Covenant, formed after a Black student was shot on a Charlestown football field, and the Citywide Parents Council all continue to flail away at the invisible enemy...
...Shultz never showed the requisite leadership to stop the steamroll of events, and, in that sense, deserves to be faulted for the loss of the U.S.'s strategic and moral stature. Now, as the first faint cries for his resignation are heard, the heretofore "cool teamplayer" is starting to flail at Congress on Central American policy. A drum beat of Foggy Bottom corridor criticism of the secretary is starting to creep into the papers. This guy may not be so cool after...