Word: shrills
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...Harvard, the office of Dean of the CollegeL. Fred Jewett '57 distributed a safety advisoryflyer to dining halls, urging students to walk ingroups, follow well-lit paths, lock their doors,use the Escort Service and purchase shrill alarms...
...admires; pointing out the stand-up desk where he reads the paper at 7 each morning. At a birthday party at the 300-acre family estate in Connecticut (where the family dogs have their own memorial park), it poured all day but, like a camp counselor with a shrill whistle, he insisted that everyone jump into the pool and play volleyball...
...among Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews and become one of the mishpocha? The reason why not is A STRANGER AMONG US. This pill of a thriller, written by Robert Avrech, manages to demean everyone involved, regardless of creed or previous credits. The usually workmanlike Sidney Lumet directs Griffith to be shrill and most of the Hasidim to be cute and noble -- E.T.s with yarmulkes. Only Eric Thal, as a young scholar, emerges with dignity intact and prospects bright...
...malaise. Batman Returns is an antidote. For a start, it's alive, not an effects showcase in a shroud. Daniel Waters' script delights in elaborate wordplay and complex characters. "The characters are all screwed up," Burton notes. "I find that much more interesting." Returns tops the first movie's shrill wrestling match between Batman (Michael Keaton) and the Joker (Jack Nicholson) with a funnier, more lithe and daring villain: the Penguin (Danny De Vito). He is a vicious troll with a righteous grudge: his rich parents dumped him in the sewer when they saw he had flippers for hands...
Unfortunately, although Dean Clark occasionally stands up to the pressure groups at the Law School, much of the time he is only too willing to show servile deference to shrill activists practicing the politics of victimhood...