Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peer groups are an extremely important resource for students who feel timid or uncertain about coming to Mental Health Services," she says...
...cast so remarkable that it's hard to imagine these characters played any other way. The performances exemplify abiding commitment to character--the principals come to Boston from either the Kennedy Center or New York staging of Marvin's Room. Carol Schultz plays a deeply complex Bessie. At once, timid and furiously caustic, forgiving and petty, she views her illness with both resignation and resistance. Tim Monison as Dr. Wally is a gleefully bumbling doctor straight out of vaudeville. Nance Williamson as Lee is a perfectly caffeinated, bleached blonde graduate from cosmetology school. Mary Diveny's Ruth, unfocused, distracted, nearly...
...FORGET, FOR A MOMENT, THE NOTORIETY of SINEAD O'CONNOR. Imagine that the truculent Irish skinhead is a timid thrush at the back of a noisy saloon, addressing with a quavering intimacy pop standards associated with Billie Holiday (Gloomy Sunday), Peggy Lee (Why Don't You Do Right?), Sarah Vaughan (Black Coffee), even Doris Day (Secret Love). And she's not bad. O'Connor can exasperate on her new album, Am I Not Your Girl? -- she wails this phrase 26 times in one song and closes the set with a dark harangue against the Roman Catholic clergy. But these assaults...
...They're afraid of things they don't understand," Izzy says of the timid students and tourists...
When O'Connor's vocals get a little thin, the listener's familiarity with some of these tracks is the magic ingredient that keeps the musical souffle from falling. For example, in "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," her approach is almost timid. She floats over the notes instead of taking them by the throat in her usual manner. But hey, this is Evita we're talking about. Everyone knows Evita (there's a picture of Andrew Lloyd Weber in the dictionary next to "cultural literacy"). And it's still Sinead! "I Want to Be Loved By You" contains...