Word: thanklessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until now, the renegade liberals have enjoyed, save for sporadic repudiations within the academic community, a kind of "sacred cow" immunity from criticism and scrutiny. In large part thanks to their combative, intimidating intellectual styles, taking them on has appeared a thankless, nasty task. Yet in the past year, as the controversy over the Bakke case rages and as political thinkers choose sides in the debate over the issues of welfare reform and federal aid to cities, more and more people have begun to see beyond the blinding gloss of the new ethnicity to the bottom line, reactionary impulse that...
Still, Sellon does a fine job with this thankless role. His singing voice, while not particularly strong or melodious, suits his characterization to a tee. Sellon delivers the most sarcastic lines in the play with venom, and is just as effective when silent. He has a talent mime, and his supple movements and flexible facial expressions give Littlechap the humanity that the scripted character lacks. During the final minutes of the show, Sellon all but convinces the audience that this Littlechap isn't such a bad sort, after...
Nonetheless, every politician capable of reading a map knew that the redistricting would inevitably be bloody. Given the thankless task of drawing new electoral districts. Majority Whip George Keverian realized that he could not possibly please all 194 fellow Democrats in the house, at least 53 of whom were bound to lose their jobs in the November 1978 election. For example, two liberal Boston representatives, who are longtime friends, will be pitted against each other in Boston's new Back Bay-Beacon Hill district: Elaine Noble, 33, the first avowed lesbian in a state assembly, and Barney Frank...
Fitzgibbons, as you may gather, is a perfectionist. He seldom actually plays, preferring instead the thankless hours spent on the practice range. When he returns to the confines of Canaday, he spends more time practicing sliding his hips through the swing by banging them against the door of his room. "It's rough on the hips," he says...
...title role, Donald Sutherland has the thankless task of trying to make something positive out of a negation. Heavy-lidded, stiff in his makeup and costume, he never shakes off the lugubriousness that has worked to better advantage in some of his previous roles...