Word: shrill
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...real attempt to construct a dynamic relationship between characters, the strange attraction between an embittered younger brother (Patrick Marren) and a crippled little girl (Gabrielle Savage), doesn't enliven the flatness. The girl is too shrill, the boy too lacklustre and unemotional...
...dreamer is a womanizer named Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni). Pursuing his latest prey (Bernice Stegers) into a feminist convention, the pursuer quickly becomes the pursued-by shrill women of every age and shape, from crones to teen-age punkers. All are projections of the basic, to Fellini anyway, male fear of the castrating female-though it must be said that he is weirdly fairminded. Snaporaz finds refuge in a castle whose owner turns out to be a male chauvinist of the most repulsive sort. A gallery contains photos of his many conquests: when you flip on the light behind each picture...
...other groups reacted angrily to the poster, which listed as its sponsors "U.G.L.Y. (United Gays and Lesbians for Yuks), the Harvard Football Team Lesbians, and the Society for the Riddance of Fat. Hideous, and Shrill-Voiced Feminists...
...semifinal, and then watched tournament favorite Clarkson blow a 3-1 lead in the final '57 seconds of the second game and lose to the seventh-seeded Friars, 4-3, in overtime. With some 3000 of their inimitable fans bused in for the contest--including one toting the shrill cowbell that has fired dozens of Cornell squads to victory through the years--the Ivy Division winners seemed ready to restake their claim as the best in the East...
What of the future? Goodman does not indulge in hollow optimism or shrill pessimism. He is worried. If Saudi Arabia, which accounts for nearly one-third of OPEC's output, drastically cuts the flow, there will be economic depression in the West. On the brighter side: Saudi Arabian moderation may prevail in the Middle East; conservation and higher production in the West may curb the growth of petrodollars, increase confidence in currency and spur a greater sense of community. The bottom line of Paper Money is that, depending on those pesky exogenous variables, things could go either...