Word: huff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...farce. In later years, however, the aging composer more than made up for it. The setting was the antebellum-in-aspic city of Charleston, South Carolina, where in 1977 Menotti founded an American counterpart to his annual Spoleto Festival in Italy. Two years ago, Menotti resigned in a huff after a petulant, embarrassing two-year power struggle with the festival's board and management. First the board insisted on including an avant-garde art exhibit Menotti opposed, then it rejected Menotti's chosen successor, his adopted son Francis. When Spoleto Festival USA announced a shortened season and a $1.7 million...
...walking dead with the fatal love bite, and Van Helsing, the fearless vampire killer. But well before Jennie embarks on her long night's journey into daze, Clark and screenwriter Harmony Korine have worked at numbing the viewer with scenes of anomic decay. It's not the rough huff of the sex play with girls who look to be on the green side of puberty, though these trysts pack their own sick wallop. It's the throwaway brutality (the kids beating up a black man in the park), the notion that the world is there to be spat...
...state capitol in Concord, New Hampshire, the local press was all over him after his senate appearance. But he was not universally applauded. State senator Burt Cohen, a Democrat, left the chamber in a huff even before Reed spoke. "He [Reed] represents a dangerous trend in this country. We should keep religion and politics separate," Cohen said later. Another state senator, Jeanne Shaheen, a Democratic stalwart, heard Reed out. But she also was offended. She said, "Anytime you paint yourself as having the right answers because of a direct connection to God, that's very dangerous...
What a triumphant contrast to the sour mood of the early season, when huff and puff as it might, the Crimson attack just couldn't blow anything past the big, bad opposing goalie...
...aggression is not followed by some kind of punitive measures; not to react in such instances is silently to condone it." Pipes and others contend that Moscow was emboldened to invade Afghanistan in 1979 (which provoked a series of ineffectual Western sanctions) partly because the West did little but huff when Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia...