Word: harsher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bessie, the care giver, connects tenderly with her harsher sister's teenage sons, one a powder keg of anger who burned down his neighborhood, the other a bespectacled Milquetoast who perpetually retreats into a book. She also has a wonderful speech recalling her only romantic love, a carnival worker who drowned before her eyes when a partying crowd onshore mistook his desperate pleas for habitual clowning. Amid the grim reality, McPherson's characters take childlike delight in simple things and maintain a giggly sense of humor. Bessie's father Marvin, unseen but for his shadow through a glass-brick wall...
Yesterday's blistering cold and rain was caused by a "wild, wild storm in the Atlantic...probably one of the worst storms we've seen in the Atlantic since the 1978 Blizzard," according to yesterday's New England Weekend Weather forecast. The telephone forecast service predicted even harsher weather conditions today...
...wimp," and attempts to establish his two co- conspirators as evil geniuses. Even the photograph McGinniss uses shows Von Stein's son as a weak-chinned, wide-eyed boy. Bledsoe, whose emphasis is on the perpetrators rather than the victims, convincingly evokes in words and pictures a much harsher figure, quite capable of conniving at murder for gain...
...gives promise of even more bizarre allegations -- including infidelities by the dozen and demonic possession straight out of The Exorcist. The proceedings will also offer further dispiriting evidence that leading televangelists saw preaching as a business rather than a calling. Out of their own mouths, it seems, will come harsher accusations than anything in Elmer Gantry...
...condemned for its belief in the immorality of homosexuality and sodomy, then we merely request that Hillel ascend from shallow hypocrisy and admonish all groups and institutions espousing similar beliefs. Will Hillel condemn the Old Testament? The Jewish religion? The state of Israel, which has sodomy laws harsher than any found in the United States...