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Hostile-aggressives. There are three subspecies in this category-"Sherman tanks," "snipers" and "exploders"-and the basic strategy for dealing with all of them is not to rise to the bait. The Shermans are straight-ahead pushy folk known for their jabbing fingers, loud talk and complete knowledge of what is good for their fellow workers. "You have to stand up to him, but don't fight," says Bramson. His advice: look Sherman straight in the eye, call him by name and state your disagreement with defusing phrases such as "in my opinion," and "it's my judgment...
...teenaged son's romance when he finds the shockingly explicit love poems by Swinburne that young Richard Miller has smuggled to his daughter. Heart-broken, Richard goes out for a night on the town with a friend of a friend whom he discovers to be a common prostitute. Daniel Sherman, the director, miscast Lydia Alix Fillingham as the whore. She perches on Richard's lap when she should sprawl. Her effort at a hard-boiled accent fails utterly. Though drinking steadily, she never allows presumably progressive tipsiness to impede her finicky, wooden speech patterns. Admittedly, the old-fashioned slang hampers...
...charming cameo) until the final act. But though "Ah, Wilderness" dawdles, it doesn't drag. Skilfully plotted, the events--though tame--transpire quickly, with many rapid scene changes. The constant familial banter speeds up the action; Ah, Wilderness doesn't seem as long as it is. Indeed, Daniel Sherman even gets away with lengthening one scene, in a nice directorial touch. While the family at home worries aobut Richard's absence during his spree, Sherman has the oldest brother sing two turn-of-the-century songs. Drew Murphy sings well, without obtrusive professionalism. The two songs, "Mighty Like a Rose...
Until a few years ago, humans could feel fairly smug about what was thought to be their unique ability to communicate with one another by using spoken language or symbols. Then psychologists at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta taught two chimps named Austin and Sherman to "converse" by pushing buttons that displayed various symbols. For probably the first time, two animals were communicating by means other than their usual repertory of gestures, grunts and squeals...
...Tigers upped their lead to three on a goal by Sean Sherman 1:06 into a chippy second period--44 minutes in penalties were called in the game, 24 of them incurred by Princeton. "They just tried to run at us," an "exasperated" Cleary said afterward...