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Actually, it might have been better to have presented The Importance of Being Earnest with an American flavor than to have created this harsh imitation of the upper crust English accent. It was one of the few flaws of this performance: this attempt to bridge the Atlantic gap was often wildly funny, but it was certainly not Wilde...
...Natalie Merchant's voice is anything but harsh and grating. In their latest album, Our Time in Eden, Maniacs effectively blends Merchant's soothing voice with powerful drums, guitar and keyboards to produce a chilling sound...
HERE IT COMES AGAIN, THAT HARSH Ross Perot plan. Whoever would have expected that a tract on deficit reduction could captivate people and rank as a best- selling book? In United We Stand, Perot tells how he would raise gasoline taxes 50 cents per gal., boost the top income-tax rate from 31% to 33% and whack 10% out of spending for programs ranging from medical research to highway construction. The goal of such tough actions: to slash the federal deficit and balance the budget in five years. "What Perot has done is to put some real beef...
...word damn. Today, other tendencies in Golden Age movies -- the stereotyping of blacks, gays and other minorities -- seem vicious in retrospect. Back then, the middle class was in charge, and they made fun of those below. Now films are a minority pleasure, so the majority is the butt of harsh humor...
...habit of blending comedy with tragedy was often oddly unsettling. He crooned about his teenage boyfriend over the sway of ironically wailing violins. Or he waxed philosophical about the fact that "our bodies are only good for death"--stopping every ten seconds to adjure his penis in a harsh whisper to "get hard" and provide him with the grand final be that he needed...