Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enforce a return to the Latin Mass, at gunpoint if necessary; a dubious record promoter (Paul Mazursky), worried that Juvenal won?t tour like the Pope does; a star biographer (Janeane Garofalo), looking for the inside gossip; and, of course, the TV host (Gina Gershon), half smarm, half snarl. "Striving for drollness, Schrader sometimes achieves a distancing effect instead," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Neither the comedy nor the melodrama is quite as compelling as it might be. But 'Touch' was never meant to be 'Get Shorty.' It is rather a wintry meditation on the difficulties of sustaining authentic faith...
...worried about the possibility that because of the Amoeba Principle, all the companies that came into being after the breakup of AT&T in 1984 may remerge, coagulating into some gigantic snarl of cables and wires. If that happens, I assume, the television commercials that were designed to make those diverse companies distinctive will simply meld together for a while, so that Candice Bergen will discuss the Yellow Pages with James Earl Jones in the voice of Dick Cavett...
...Business to sensational effect. The guardians of conservative p.c. are pummeling him as a traitor and a "left-winger" in every medium they command. Blue-collar people, in at least some settings, are embracing him as the great white hope--a sort of depigmented Jesse Jackson with a snarl...
...that Dole wasn't on board with the Contract with America, we could have packed our bags and gone home. Their work together in Congress has given Dole the opportunity to reverse some of the past animosity between them. He's done it well." Well enough for Gingrich to snarl, "Come on, that was 11 years ago," when asked about his having labeled Dole the "tax collector for the welfare state...
Later, she wielded a guitar she said was out of tune. Smith's voice, however, was in fine form. It became a ratty snarl when she sang "Dylan's Dog," but in other tunes such as "About a Boy," a song off her upcoming album, she had all the resonance of a harmonica. Her voice rose octaves and at points even seemed to purr...