Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heurtebise's presence is often quite a relief in this production, as it manages to counteract the strained sense of tragedy Steven Crist insists on projecting through Orpheus. Regardless of the situation. Crist speaks in the same strident, anguished voice, which, predictably, soon grows monotonous. The play needs some contrast to the gentility of Heurtebise and the coy good nature of Eurydice, but Orpheus fails to provide that balance--harshly disrupting the triangle of their relationship, instead...
...result, while absorbing, tends to be choppy. The essays run the gamut from a discussion of science fiction in the visual media to a detailed description of the way a writer creates an imaginary solar system, complete with charts and graphs. At their worst the essays are self-consciously strident and border, at times, on the obscure. Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow only becomes of effective when the writers each in his or her own way, attempt to deal with the reasons mainstream culture; the role science fiction plays in society now, and the future...
...some congressional pressure to liberalize emigration policy -mainly toward Soviet Jews-in exchange for trade concessions. The Kremlin waived the oppressive "education tax" on applicants for exit visas, and in the past two years allowed 54,000 Jews to leave the country. But the Russians were appalled by the strident congressional debate on the issue and the publication of letters between Kissinger and Senator Jackson spelling out Soviet assurances to let out more would-be emigres "promptly." They perceived the public ventilation of diplomatic dealings -normal in a free society-as an affront to their sovereignty. As a Soviet intellectual...
...during that early scene or it may be shortly after, when Hildy spits out a bit of Wilder-Diamond dialogue and Carol Burnett goes into a strident impersonation of a cut-rate hooker, that the movie curdles. But the thought occurs very early on that the latest The Front Page is an odd place to find Billy Wilder. The sap and the snap are gone...
...mostly on Bruce's own routines and court battles, but manages to present them with continuity. The bits themselves, carefully edited, represent the best of Lenny Bruce and capture his change in mood and brand of humor--as arrests persisted, Lenny's character became increasingly raffish, his voice increasingly strident and self-righteous, until he was trying to frighten his audience more than amuse...