Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Before the '70s had ended, he was enjoying a chauffeured Mercury, a Fifth Avenue apartment, an annual getaway to Martha's Vineyard, seats on four corporate boards and a reputation among some blacks as a "sellout." He didn't see it that way. "Black power will remain just a shout and a cry, unless it is channeled into constructive efforts to...influence the established institutions of American politics," he said...
Anne has a clean driving record with scarcely even a fender bender to her name. But when she takes to the highway, even her kids join the fun. "Make him move over!" they shout as she bears down on a 55-m.p.h. sluggard in the fast lane. She flashes her headlights. The kids cheer when the unlucky target gives in and moves aside. Back in town, Anne specializes in near misses. "Jeez, I almost hit that woman," she chirps, swinging the Suburban into the right lane to pass a car turning left at an intersection. She makes the game...
Rudenstine--not one to shout such broad visions from the mountaintops--seems prepared to begin at least the later step. "We have to be more international," he says...
...especially disturbing among queers. To be frank, I believe that Harvard queers--like myself--lose sight of the lesbian and gay movement when thinking about personal success. But I do not have the luxury of the closet anymore. I can no longer write a resume that does not shout out lesbian. I am marked for life...
...second type is from Wall Street. The party tends to consist of maybe eight youngish men in identical dark suits. They take a table and drape their suit jackets over their chairbacks so that their red suspenders can be displayed. Then they wave around thick cigars as they shout at each other at trading-pit volume about what brand of single-malt Scotch they prefer...