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...strident attempt to assert the validity of more "alternative" definitions of feminity, the exhibit certainly lacks a perspective which addresses more "standard" sources of feminity such as motherhood or heterosexual love...
Albee is exorcising his own demons in having the dowager deny her homosexual son. Strikingly, he keeps the son mute and gives the mother her uninterrupted say. The counterpoint between his deathbed devotion and her strident evocation of a showdown years before could feel contrived. Like all of this chamber masterpiece, it is nuanced and heartbreaking...
Sachs said his resignation was prompted by the January 20 appointment of two strident anti-reformers to Yeltsin's cabinet, who replaced Sachs' key allies within the cabinet, Vice Premier Yegor Gaidar and Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov...
NAFTA, in spite of being the first trade accord with progressive environmental provisions and effective enforcement mechanisms attracted a motley assortment of opponents, including strident labor groups, Pat Buchanan and the ubiquitous Ross Perot...
Teachers clearly have been mistreated by the program; Harvard should address their grievances. But the staff chooses instead to claim suffering on its own behalf, favoring strident, unfounded accusations over a rational, constructive assessment of the situation...