Word: gallingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American broadcasters tend to consider British TV news programs professionally put together but low budget, low key and kind of boring. Instead of anchormen, there are news readers who do not thrust their personalities at the viewer. Only a few interviewers with outsize gall, like Sir Robin Day of the BBC with his signature polka-dot bow ties, are true celebrities (our unknighted Sir Ted Koppels and Sir Tom Brokaws must be content with honorary college degrees...
...sound like a ten- ton banshee caught in a vise. And yet there he sits, caressing an acoustic guitar in bedlam, playing Bach and Mozart, Francisco Tarrega and Erik Satie, and one of the reasons he got his back up about it was that the city had the gall to hit him with an environmental charge: making unnecessary noise...
...tabloids gave Andy Warhol a Viking funeral last week, as well they might. At 58 he suffered cardiac arrest following gall-bladder surgery. To the end, he remained surrounded by an aura of popular fame such as no other American artist had ever known in his or her lifetime -- a flash-card recognizability that almost rivaled Picasso's. Millions of Americans who could not have picked Jasper Johns or Henri Matisse from a police lineup could identify that pale, squarish, loose-lipped face with its acne, blinking gaze and silvery...
...length of the production takes it toll on both the audience and the cast; by Act III, countertenor Jeffrey Gall (Julius) was cracking, and soprano Mary Westbrook-Geha (Cornelia) looked like she would have been grateful for a throat lozenge. A fifth of the audience was missing, too. The ridiculous length of this show trips up many of Sellar's interesting staging and acting ideas; the cast is so intent on remembering their lines, hitting the notes, and getting the blocking right that they can only make a gesture at acting...
...might seem a long way from studying wasps to studying sex, but applied biology graduate student Alfred C. Kinsey '20 apparently learned about the importance of rigorous scientific methods of classification while writing "Studies of Gall Wasps (Cynipidae, Hymenoptera)." He later applied these methods of classification to his famous Kinsey Reports: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, published in 1948, and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, published in 1953. The Kinsey Reports have frequently been called the first scientific examination of American sexual behavior...