Word: loudnesses
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...great acting is rounded out by Angela Bassett who plays Janet Reeves, the stubborn high school principal. Bassett is loud and emotional in her portrayal--the determination of her character shines right through. Moreover, Bassett and Streep complement each other well during many pivotal moments in the movie. When Guaspari's funding for the music program is cut and Reeves is unable to save it despite exhausting her efforts, the angry exchange between Streep and Bassett conveys the helplessness and frustration that many educators surely feel toward the politics of the education system. I was sold...
According to Pokaski, area residents reported to the board a pattern of mischief-making on the part of SAE members. The litany of allegations included public urination, dropping trash from the roof of the fraternity house onto parked cars, making loud noises late into the night and various other grievances...
Despite the loud cheering from Weld Boathouse, their home turf, the Radcliffe women could not find their rhythm in yesterday's race...
...They had a loud crowd [attendance of 314] and it made for quite a loud gym, but we were able to put it out of our minds," said junior Katherine Hart...
...alone. The assignment was for students to write anonymous essays about their views on racism and whether they themselves might be racist. Days later, when the teacher read some of the essays aloud, Rhodes couldn't believe what she heard. One paper, she recalls, described black kids as "loud, obnoxious show-offs." Another depicted blacks as inferior. As usual, Paya was the only black student in the class. "I felt real uncomfortable and out of place," she recalls. "These were people I talked to and worked in groups with. I had no idea some of them didn't like black...