Word: stentorian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death-knell of liberal compassion or civilized political thought among the booms and bangs of Starship Troopers. In fact,Starship Troopers is sophisticated enough to recognize and comment on its own absurd, jingoistic hubris. We know this because director Paul Verhoeven punctuates his movie with the kinds of stentorian radio calls-to-arms familiar from World War II newsreels, and the same stylized "heroic" dialogue of '50s-era comic books and trading cards...
...botches the job. The book, written with Thomas M. Coffey, is starchy, stentorian, too careful, like the world's longest Oscar-acceptance speech. We learn that Kramer grew up in New York City's tough Hell's Kitchen, that as a kid he belonged to an interracial gang, that after World War II he became a producer by buying the rights to two Ring Lardner stories. He writes that just before shooting began on Champion, the Lardner boxing story that would make Kirk Douglas a star, the actor got a nose job and said that in the fight scenes...
...stentorian tone seldom employed at presidential press conferences, Yeltsin excoriated reporters for predicting that the meeting would be a disaster. "Well, now for the first time I can tell you that YOU'RE a disaster," he said, sending a beet-red President Clinton into a such fits of laughter that took him nearly a minute to compose himself...
...Chinese leaders were worried about Mr. Clinton's stentorian threats, they sure didn't show it. As it turns out, the Chinese had a better understanding of the grammar of the Clintonic mood than most American voters...
...talk on the deficit, pro-amendment hawks like Pual Simon--the same bow-tied Potato-Head who thinks that our crime problem can be solved by 24-hour broadcasts of the "Reading Rainbow" on every channeling Rainbow" on every channel--have left themselves a generous escape clause. Though spouting stentorian anti-deficit rhetoric, the pro-amendment forces astutely realize that sometimes deficit spending is necessary and thus have stipulated that Congress could violate its new iron-clad rule by a three-fifths majority. Like the Gramm-Rudman bill that came before it, the Balanced Budget Amendment is as toothless...