Word: shrills
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...received my housing assignment. Above the din of the Mem Church bells, I heard another shrill and annoying sound, quite clearly emanating from the third floor of Weld. It was a bloodcurdling, hair-raising, "this is where Cameron freaks out" kind of scream. It was the C-word. "Currier! Currier! Oh God, I've been Currierized!!" The day had come...
Powers doesn't disagree. But he fears that slam winners get attention at the expense of better poets. "The first poem to win the Slam was 'I Stink.' The speaker discussed various bodily smells. It was funny. It was shrill. But it won. A couple poems were good, but got tiny votes...
...Democratic left -- is singing out of the old Connally hymnbook. An artfully contrived TV spot depicts Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey guarding a hockey net while warning the Japanese that "if we can't sell in their market, they can't sell in ours." Harkin vows to send a similarly shrill message to Tokyo: "We're going to reduce our trade deficit with you, Japan, down to zero in five years. Two ways you can do it: buy more or sell us less." Even soft- spoken Democrat Paul Tsongas cracks, "The cold war is over, and Japan won." And if Buchanan...
...rail cars for the county's new transit system. In mid-December the commission voted 7 to 4 to award $122 million to Sumitomo for the job. But that was before President Bush made his ill-starred trip to Tokyo to wrest trade concessions from the Japanese and a shrill chorus shouting "Buy America" began to drown out all others on the L.A. commission. "No loyal American would hand over that contract to the Japanese," said Nate Holden, an L.A. city councilor. Last week the commission yanked the contract back from Sumitomo in a bald effort to save American jobs...
...show is more shrill than Donahue. Phil still scores his coups (he had the first TV interview with Wanda Holloway, convicted of plotting the murder of her daughter's cheerleading rival) and does his homework. But his hyperventilating style has reached the point of self-parody, and his exploitative gimmicks are growing increasingly shameless. No one but Donahue could kill an hour debating whether beauty contests in bars are demeaning to women or just good clean fun -- or manage to keep a straight face while trotting out, after every commercial break, a different trio of scantily clad women to demonstrate...