Word: tad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike a certain fellow actor turned politician, Eastwood has had a pretty good year. Of course, the scale of his achievements is a tad more modest. Eastwood pushed for a new parking lot to ease congestion during the annual plague of tourists, and he has allowed a local shop to sell ice-cream cones, a commodity the previous regime restricted. Says Mike Lajigian, who owns Chocolate Dreams and dispenses 22 flavors at $1.50 and up: "He's cut through the bureaucracy and still maintained the integrity of the village...
Oughta: Tom Berenger, Platoon. Just a tad bit better than Willem Dafoe's Good Angel, Berenger's performance as Bad Mother Barnes gave this movie an edge it would otherwise have lacked. I'd like to see them split the Oscar--live, on stage, with a grenade or something...
While the utter villainy of men in Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi is just a tad unrealistic, British playwright Pam Gems seems to be taking male depravity to an extreme in order to test out the weaknesses and strengths of her four female characters. This exaggerration causes us to question their actions. If men are so bad, why do these women permit men to treat them this way? Why do they keep coming back for more...
What we hadn't counted on, though, was that after a few drinks our fellow hijackers would get a tad unruly. In retrospect, Rutger and I shouldn't have insisted that the stewardesses waive the $2.50 mixed drink fee, because once we all started hitting the sauce in the way only free sauce can be hit, the expedition lost all sense of organization...
...approaches 30. There have also been more than 20 other books, including nonfiction, literary criticism, biography, children's stories, poems, plays and translations, not to mention screenplays and a relentless stream of uncollected reviews and journalistic pieces. This frenzy of production has made the author famous and, paradoxically, a tad unwelcome. Readers and reviewers, confronted regularly with someone who makes himself impossible to ignore, are likely to decide to do just that. A new Burgess? Never mind; let it pass. There will be another one in a few months...