Word: unpleasanter
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On Saturday the U.N. Security Council voted to permit NATO air strikes into Croatia, forcing NATO officials to confer nervously on how to put the resolution into effect. The escalating warfare could not have come at a worse time for the NATO allies and the members of the five-nation...
Why is that? Observers in Hong Kong say there are a couple of possible ! unpleasant scenarios. In scenario No. 1, Chinese authorities, who have already tightened credit in a somewhat futile attempt to halt runaway inflation, will tighten it further. This would lead to economic collapse, riots and widespread bankruptcy...
The scenes featuring John as a young adolescent, are somewhat unpleasant, and the humor is sometimes strained. Steve Raizes brings the appropriate mix of awkwardness and sensitivity to the character, but he is too often given lines that sound ridiculous when they are supposed to be coming from the mouth...
John's unpleasant precosciousness comes across as creepy rather than charming and funny. Far better and more genuine are the scenes featuring the older John and Lisa (played by Liz Amberg), though the latter's character is never developed enough to justify John's frantic state of mind.
But committee member Laura M. Brew '95 had other ideas. "The only way to keep them away is to make it unpleasant for them to come here," she said.