Word: rude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quickly pledged that the conservative Soviet mouthpiece would strive to reflect the "pluralism of opinions" within the Communist Party. But the promised glasnost failed to materialize. Last month at an open party meeting, Pravda employees angrily demanded their editor in chief's resignation. Frolov, they fumed, was high- handed, rude and a sycophant of the worst order. Staff members charged that he muzzled editorial voices and blocked attempts to modernize the paper's gray pages, thus driving away readers...
When girls use their voices to express truths, "that voice gets called stupid...and rude," said Carol Gilligan, Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Development. She told the crowd of more than 200 people in Science Center A that she named her talk "Staying in Touch: Women's Psychological Health and Development," because she wondered "what would it mean for men and women to stay in touch with that girl...
...places like Queens and Staten Island. You think I'm a farmer or something?) I have never heard of a New York Chamber of Commerce. If it exists, I suspect it spends most of its time putting out press releases about aggravations. Also, telling New Yorkers not to be rude is the equivalent of telling Neapolitans not to talk with their hands: it could render us speechless...
...upset with Donnie because we asked him for his autograph and he was very rude to us," she said. Bertrand said she was driving one day down Dorchester Avenue near the Fields Corner section of Dorchester, when she spotted Wahlberg talking to a group of girls...
...nagging feeling of deja vu that plagues the viewer throughout The Freshman obscures some of the film's considerable accomplishments. The Freshman is about the rather rude introduction Clark Kellogg gets to the big city. Eager to start his first year at NYU Film School, he arrives at Grand Central Station and is immediately conned out of all his money and possessions by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby). Kellogg meets up with Ray again and in order to make up for his past wrongs, offers him a job working for his uncle, Carmine Sabatini, a prominent importer with dubious business dealings...