Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quaid plays the role with an intense restraint and pained disposition which conveys the total psychological damage done to him by his father, and his own personal battle to distinguish himself from Roy's actions. Meg Ryan as Kay Davies is the focus of the father-son struggle, and remains a simplistic character completely oblivious to what is happening around her. Her sparkling wide-eyed stare and innocent dialogue provide an effective counterweight to the heavy dynamic of the plot which revolves around...
...songs with one-word or one-phrase choruses ("Spitfire," "Sunday") slide into my head and won't let go; the songs with more complicated lyrical setups ("Noelle, Jonah and Me") actually have to be deciphered, but it's worth it. The Spinanes have something to say about restraint, about the blank spaces--in a band, in a life, in a romance--that pop up where you expect music, or words, or approval, or love, to be; anyone who thinks pop music can't be emotionally subtle needs to hear this record yesterday. Lately its less hummable songs have been reminding...
...Sinai, chief economist of Boston Co. Economic Advisors, thinks that nearly half the current deficit is due to an underperforming economy, which results in lost tax receipts and extra spending on unemployment. Moving too sharply to balance the budget would "pour salt on the wound," he says. "Modest budget restraint is the best way to go, so that the recovery is not sacrificed...
Among the incumbents, we endorse Edward N. Cyr, Francis H. Duehay '55 and Kenneth E. Reeves '72. Cyr has professional experience with city budgets; he was brought in as finance manager of Chelsea, Mass. after the city went bankrupt. He has been a leading advocate of fiscal restraint and is a level-headed, tough voice at council meetings. With another term as councillor, Cyr will continue to fight for a more efficient and less bureaucratic city government...
...more to obscure British groups (notably the Marine Girls) than it ever could to Joni Mitchell. The singing is breathy, intimate and casual without sounding contrived: the very reasonableness Lois conveys in denouncing herself, or denouncing an ex, or attacking romantic pretensions, guarantees the depth of feeling she conceals. Restraint over anger over disappointment approach and recede like waves; sometimes, as in "The Trouble with Me," the songs actually add and subtract instruments that way too. Listening to Strumpet is a bit like taking a long bike ride through light rain-it's hardly spectacular, it feels a bit lonely...