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Sexual anxiety in "Hour" has more to do with delusional love than anxiety. It's not just his wife Johan fears, it is high society itself--quick to leech off him for his artistic skill but just as eager to jeer at him as a spurned suitor or a freak...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Bergman's Fantasies Live On at The HFA | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

While their homes burned behind them, refugees streamed across the country, tying up every road in northern Bosnia with thousands of vehicles. Profiteers sold gasoline for 10 DMs a liter, tap water for 2 DMs a liter. Wherever the convoys passed, Croats gathered to jeer, releasing a barrage of bricks, boulders and manure. "Monkeys!" they screamed. "Murderers!" "Go back to Serbia!" One of the worst incidents occurred in Sisak, where Croats began pulling people out of their vehicles and beating them; a woman later died from her injuries. In one of this war's strangest twists, more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW VICTIMS, NEW VICTORS | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

...example, Harvard Coach Tim Murphy decided to have his team punt the ball from the Cornell 33 instead of going for it on fourth down. How about a good-natured jeer to let him know that it would be more exciting to go for it--you don't lose too much in the way of field position if you don't make the first down...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: And the Band Played On (II) | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

...second-half clock passes the 45-minute mark, and the crowd begins to whistle or jeer for the referee to blow his whistle three times and end the game...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Men's Soccer Loses Heartbreaker | 9/29/1994 | See Source »

Finding workers to replace strikers is already a difficult task. Strikers often jeer at new workers, call them scabs, threaten them with physical abuse, and sometimes even engage in bullying tactics such as physcially and verbally attacking replacements...

Author: By George Wang, | Title: Labor Bills: Paved With Good Intentions | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

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