Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week there was growing evidence that all the early alarms had been much too strident. To begin with, the Soviets indicated that they might have overreacted to the Administration's position. The decidedly mellowing tone was set during a Kremlin dinner for visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, at which Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev suggested that the Moscow chill had not been intended as a deepfreeze. He referred to the U.S. as "our partners" and scolded the Americans for "losing their constructive approach" and for adhering to a "onesided position." A "reasonable accommodation is possible" in arms limitation...
There are dragon ladies breathing fire on the stage of Broadway's Martin Beck Theater. Paul Zindel has conceived of a raw, strident all-woman power struggle for control of a regional theater called the "Alamo" in Texas City, Texas. The bitchy confrontations in his play make the feline spats in Clare Boothe Luce's The Women sound like the popping of ladyfingers...
...narcissistic equation of the suffering God and the rejected artist. It is customary, at least in Belgium, to see Ensor as a man of the people. But Ensor's waterfront lumpenproletariat look just as subhuman as his judges and police officers. As a political artist, he was both strident and unfocused. The Good Judges, 1891, is a curdled parody of Daumier, without the master's swift economy of feeling. It is impossible to tell what Ensor thought about politics, except that he was in favor of free education and universal suffrage, and against the riot squad...
...well. Last week the Soviets arrested a prominent dissident and expelled an American correspondent. Would the State Department maintain a sort of running commentary on such incidents as they occurred? Vance tried to blunt the issue by declaring that U.S. criticism of foreign governments should be neither "polemical" nor "strident," but would occur "from time to time when we see a threat to human rights...
...harsh notes in a program characterized otherwise by cool sophistication and robust humor. Spohn at least handles her satire of women as sex objects with a deft control of her visual material, a collage of advertising images and photographs. But the stress on sadism and bodily functions is insistently strident. Goldman, an Israeli living in London, succeeds only in making her audience uncomfortable with a sketch that involves a humiliating striptease by a skinny ballerina and two fat women. The final shot of the film reveals that the members of the audience, who have been shouting "Take...