Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even for a friend. I'm giving you (a goal) for your team: $10 billion out next year. Tell me how you get there . . . Your call. You've got 30 days. Sayonara." California Democrat Robert Matsui, a Japanese American unaccustomed to Iacocca's happy- - go-lucky tendency toward the shrill, called the remarks "racist...
Quite aside from the cut of his clothes or his jib, Gorbachev indisputably differs from the Old Guard in his ability to talk to Westerners without giving shrill lectures on the advantages of the Soviet way. He has made eleven trips abroad, six of them to Western countries, and demonstrated to farmers in Canada, politicians in Britain, and NATO diplomats that he is a good listener and that he can discuss issues briskly and without putting them into an ideological context. In talks with British officials in London last year, for example, he argued against the development of Star Wars...
...trouble with the Democratic Party is that to many voters its national leadership appears to be no more than a collection of shrill special-interest groups. Just look at the way the Democratic National Committee has not merely tolerated but officially recognized seven different caucuses, representing business, women, blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Pacific delegates, "liberal- progressives" and even homosexuals...
...soloists are not nearly as strong. Soprano Grace Bumbry's shrill, edgy Bess fails to communicate either that lady's sultry eroticism or her ambiguous moral nature. Better is Bass-Baritone Simon Estes' dignified, sympathetic Porgy, though his voice is not as robust as it should be. (Injured during the dress rehearsal, he played the crippled hero on real crutches.) Individual honors go to Mezzo-Soprano Florence Quivar as the soulful Serena and the dashing Gregg Baker as the villainous Crown. The production, designed and directed by Robert O'Hearn and Nathaniel Merrill, is handsome, if not as spectacular...
...faste from the text of his prepared sermon (source: UPI dispatch 1/10/83 to castigate Harvard for its investments in South Africa. It would have been enough if, in one sentence he had simply deplored the existence of the investments. Instead, he indulged himself, in a three minute diatribe of shrill overkill...