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...echoed in the plays of Joe Orton and Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a direct descendant), in Dennis Potter's savage TV scripts and in a generation of performers, from Albert Finney to the Beatles, whom Osborne's example encouraged to speak in their own rude voices. He was the first to cry fire in a crowded London theater. From Anger on, no sexual or social rancor was off limits. Nobody had to behave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Angry Man: John Osborne (1929-1994) | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...staff was rude, vague and appeared completely unwilling to help me. No one told me exactly where I should go; everyone was unsure. No one offered me a wheelchair or an alternative to limiting the amount of walking...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: Harvard's Health Crisis | 12/14/1994 | See Source »

...feel like we are going to a prison where we will be treated with rude comments by a staff which not only lacks in quality and insight into the medical field but one which also shows little, if any, concern for its patients...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: Harvard's Health Crisis | 12/14/1994 | See Source »

Visiting Bosnia on a last-ditch peace mission, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali weathered a rude reception from all sides

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poorly Treated Guest of the Week | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...have a good friend from down South who insists he would never marry a girl from the North," says Allison M. Villafane '98, who is from New York. "He says we're rude and domineering...

Author: By Janet C. Chang, | Title: Like Race, Regionalism Can Be Cause for Bias | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

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