Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with suspicion and unproductive opposition. She states, "I can imagine how difficult it's going to be for my group, for instance, when we're applying for council money and this group [PUCC] is in place." So can we, Amanda. So can we. In fact, we can hear the shrill cries of debate and bickering that the PUCC is about to add to council chambers...
...more civilized parts it will. And to many Americans--who are by no means the "cultural elite" that conservative rhetoric invokes with such shrill banality--it already does. Of course, the defunding of the endowments isn't going to kill off the arts in America. Painters, dancers, actors are tough as weeds and can grow in cracks in the concrete. There was great art, drama, writing and scholarship in America before 1965, when the endowments were founded. Dedicated people create ingenious strategies of survival for themselves. But why should they have to? By what meanness, through what smug Philistinism...
Such an analysis inevitably elicits the shrill accusation of "sour grapes." Of course the winners in an election will pursue policies which advance their own interests and hurt those of the opposition. And the small-government, tax-cutting Republican neophytes would betray their supporters if they did any favors for the "welfare bureaucracy" so often excoriated in their campaign ads. Yet when conservatives seek to undercut the very means of political competition itself--to systematically cut off their ideological opponents from access to advocacy--there is good reason for alarm. Bewildered by attacks on all sides, American liberals need...
...Backdraft and The Paper, Howard splashed his vision on a huge canvas and peopled it with a sprawling cast. His problem was that in pushing a zillion buttons on the plot console, he often pushed too hard. Perhaps fearful of losing his audience, Howard would let his films get shrill or dewy. In Apollo 13, though, he has only a few dips into bathos (a too-cute child's face here, a dotty grandma there). Mostly, he makes viewers partners, trusting them to keep track of all the techno-talk, to take on faith what they don't immediately grasp...
...Twenty-five years after the fact, it is clear that Hendrix is still the master of pure sound on the electric guitar. His solo improvisations are not based so much on notes as they are on the quality of the tone produced by his instrument, which changes from a shrill and piercing wa-wa to a low, fat growl...