Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Larry Lazar's awareness that his whole life has been a vain effort to win her explicit approval, and in her too brief scenes she dominates the story as effectively as she rules the family around her. Still, there is not a false note in the whole shrill song, and in its balanced skewering of Brooklyn and Beverly Hills, The Return of Mr. Hollywood may launch a new genre: the bicoastal novel. -By William A. Henry...
...digest three volumes of prescribed readings. All, ironically, are techniques pioneered and perfected by Mao (who once declared, "Selfcriticism is like eating dogmeat: if you haven't tried it, you don't know what you're missing"). But the reformers have taken care to avoid the mass rallies, shrill tirades and media fanfare of purges past. Says a Peking party functionary: "Deng doesn't want this to develop into a movement that will create chaos and instill fear...
Although the Journal is written essentially for the business community, and is often shrill in its editorial page conservatism, the news columns are eminently fair. Indeed, the paper is sometimes at odds with itself: the editorial page has asserted repeatedly that the Soviet Union is engaging in chemical warfare in Asia in the form of "yellow rain," while Journal news reporting has offered other explanations for the phenomenon. The news staff takes pride in giving thorough coverage to the problems of labor and the unemployed, and in challenging the questionable practices of corporations. After Mobil Corp. President William Tavoulareas sued...
...Harvard, in society in general, as well as bringing up the questions of the brutal rape-imagery in the newsletter, and the socialization of sex stereotypes in society that the message has become clouded. Indeed, it seems that these women have merely served to confirm the image of the shrill feminist unfairly held by much of society...
...lines that have been provided for them. When Andrew calls his father in the desert after an argument, he says desperately, "don't worry. Dad, I'll pay for the call. You can take it out of my allowance." Thomas pulls off this unfathomable statement with a desperate, sometimes shrill voice, making the audience wish that the actors could have had a better script to develop their characters...