Word: thunderation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hazenberg hails from Thunder Bay, Ontario, thesame hometown as Paul Shaffer, David Letterman'sband leader
...language is blatant and sometimes crass. In this short play, it is a paradox that the dialogue should seem to drag on so uselessly, while the action seems to thunder on like machine-gun fire. This slaughters both the characters and the play. In rhythmic but nonsensical spurts, so much anger builds up in these women that they start to chant "BASTARD MEN! BASTARD MEN!" in an eery, Brave New World-like crescendo, and do it more than once. The fact that boys are made of "snaps and snails and puppy dogs' tails" is hissed visciously from the tongues...
...guess they are just some fanatics % who talked Dad into letting them use the place." Yet it was only a few months later that Billy had his own conversion experience. "I didn't have any tears, I didn't have any emotion, I didn't hear any thunder, there was no lightning," he says. "But right there, I made my decision for Christ. It was as simple as that, and as conclusive...
...stands in A Big Storm Knocked It Over, Colwin's idea is that normal men and women can sometimes lead reasonably happy lives. This insight hardly merits the implied crisis of the big storm of her title. Colwin draws a parallel between a sudden thunder-storm in the country which knocks physical things over, and marriage, pregnancy and parenthood, which knock abstract things over. Don't fret, she advises, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, and? The book does not empower the reader to face the world; it does not inspire the reader to have faith...
...short, McArthur's presentation stoleRudenstine's thunder...