Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kinds of sexual harassment, and Jones--to take a not so random example--charges both. The first is called "quid pro quo" harassment, and it's the easier to grasp. If your boss docks your pay or fires you or otherwise punishes you for rebuffing an advance, he's flat-out guilty. Jones, for instance, says her supervisors at the little state office where she was a clerk mistreated her after she rejected Governor Clinton's alleged advance. Her co-workers got bigger raises, she says, and her job became a "dead end." Clinton has denied that he propositioned...
...Ride," Stan follows his dog to a sort of amusement park for homosexual pets. "Stan's dog's a homo!" is a typical line from that show. While the series is now created on a computer, Parker and Stone first used construction paper in their animation, which retains a flat, crude look with leaps into the fantastic. Altogether, the effect is Peanuts by way of Tim Burton...
...should be said, flat out, that Lyne's Lolita is not a movie we need to be protected from. If it offers a certain sympathetic understanding of Jeremy Irons' gently wistful Humbert Humbert, he is more than adequately punished for his nymphetomania. If Lolita, in Dominique Swain's marvelous performance--a mercurial blend of the guileful and guileless--is as much victimizer as victim, well, such creatures are not unknown in life...
Following a 20 minute intermission, the orchestra plunged directly into what would have been the final piece of its program, Schumann's Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, "Spring." Here the layering of textures is much deeper than in Brahms' work, with a fanfare from the trumpets heralding the arrival of a multitude of entrances from all sections of the orchestra. Mimicking the bustle of springtime with trilling ornamentation and a robust tone, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra lost none of the momentum it received with Derek Han's performance; even the more placid Larghetto was imbued with the anticipation...
...collision. On the other was the description of crew members, whom colleagues and commanders praised for their flying skills and professionalism. And all the 35 EA-6B flyers interviewed said they had never heard of anyone flying too low, too fast or doing improper stunts -- what Marine pilots call "flat hatting." It did strike some Pentagon officials as peculiar that there is a nickname for something the pilots say they never do and never heard of others doing...