Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...form of psychic masochism. Her new friend, Deborah Shapiro, is a wealthy divorcee with an enormous empty house that she calls "my Tara." Trained only "to walk down stairs with panache," she is no longer a Jewish American princess but a full-fledged dowager queen. With her raucous voice and laugh, Taylor brings this character to exuberant life. When she says, after Burnett saves her from a suicide attempt, "I'm the Titanic. She's the lifeboat," it is funny and poignant. The switch here is that Taylor gets the jokes, while Burnett broods...
Rolf Sellge, senior vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., noticed it as a sharp rise in the din outside his office. Traders at the International Monetary Market in Chicago responded to it with arm waving and raucous bids. In financial offices around the world, tensions rose as the news flashed across video screens and was relayed in frantic telephone deals: the price of the U.S. dollar was surging to record levels. The dollar fetched 8.06 French francs at the start of the week, the highest rate in more than 60 years, and also commanded 2.68 deutsche marks, a nine...
King and Washington's arrival was greeted with raucous chants of "Mel King Mel King and prompted the most demonstrative reaction by King of the day. Smiling broadly. King and Washington raised their hands together in a victory salute before the partisan crowd in King's home base...
...present the most hotly disputed stock on the Big Board of art. The arguments about it are going to go on for quite a while, partly because few generalizations hold across a field of painters whose work varies so wildly in meaning and quality. What can be said of raucous ephemerids like Rainer Petting that will also apply to deeper men like Anselm Kiefer? The Germans, understandably, have extolled all of it because the resurgence of expressionist figuration offers a way out of the cul-de-sac in which German painting and sculpture found themselves after 1945. Hitler had trashed...
Even by the standards of a country where political campaigns are not so much seen as heard, electioneering reaches a raucous pitch...