Word: goading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past (Annie Hall, Manhattan), have concocted a steady stream of badinage that buoys the whole movie along. But these exchanges evaporate, and the movie is surprisingly flat visually. There comes a moment when you realize how wrong just being funny is for Allen. Ambition is an essential goad to his sensibility. It pushes him toward the rueful resonances of those previous Brickman collaborations and toward the magical transformations of reality in The Purple Rose of Cairo and Radio Days...
With Daryl Johnson on bass and Ronald Jones on drums, Lanois has the benefit of the kind of rich rhythm section that can be both goad and guide. When a musical phrase or lyric passage threatens to send Lanois off into deep space, Johnson and Jones can pull him back; when he's revising tradition, as on Indian Red, a kind of New Orleans gumbo classic, they help him explore musical byways that can bring him home again along a brand new route. If Highway 61 ran past Cape Canaveral, Lanois would be singing at the crossroads...
Students, then, may have to goad the University into positive action. If Harvard, out of institutional lethargy, refuses to sign on to Green Lights, then students must unite to pressure the University into spending their tuition more efficiently...
...game show Infatuation, "don't call them. Call us." A perfect appeal for the '90s. Why pursue your romance in private when you can confide your feelings to millions of TV viewers? In the process, you can get coached by the very same sensitive guy who used to goad feuding couples on The Newlywed Game. You might even score...
...means stand up against violent crime. Work for safer streets. Strive to stop violence against women. Even goad the administration to increase escort service...