Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...route. Others are experiencing motion sickness as they try to grapple with new ideas like demokratizatsiya and privatizatsiya or attempt to figure out what makes brokery different from raketeery. (It is instructive that the Russian language has no words of its own for these borrowed concepts.) Still others shout for Yeltsin to crack the whip and get the old nags moving faster. But however bumpy the ride, if reform is really to take hold, every Russian must somehow arrive at an internal alteration of his or her mental outlook, a fresh landscape of the mind, to suit the new system...
...compelling than the moral ambiguities -- the career fears and emotional compromises -- that rule most people's lives, but it is more photogenic. Here is the new creed: movies are pictures of stuff happening. And the uglier the stuff, the more, well, cinematic the result. Naked aggression is sexy. I shout in your face. I spit in your face. I blow off your face. I blow up your family. I blow up the city. So many films today want to begin with invective and end in apocalypse. Everybody dies; get there first. Made it, Ma! End of the world...
...have to opposing groups confront each other, however, is not very friendly. Even if the pro-choice groups do not shout and yell, they will no doubt be provoked by the pro-life groups. They will be called "baby killers" or worse. And it's difficult to resist responding to that kind of epithet...
David Marmor, as the stellar editor of the Liberal Press, and Ishir Bahn, as his trusty sidekick, the chair of the homeowners' council, have sophisticated acting styles, but crude parts. They shout and wave their arms a lot in an effective rendition of two almost slapstick characters. Amory Downes as Mrs. Stockmann and Michelle Sullivan as her daughter perform competently...
Columnists and casual conversationalists alike are obsessed with the issue of a woman's control over her body; all shout their opinions on the topic, but very little real dialogue emerges from the chaos of the debate. The terrorist tactics of groups like Operation Rescue who barricade abortion clinics, the people who try to shout them down and especially the gag rule imposed on physicians, all prevent rational discussion...