Word: whimpered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upperclass formal. Weekend hours for OCS. Office space for student groups. More funding for House Committees. Buses to Boston. This is how the Undergraduate Council race begins--not with a bang, but a whimper...
...journalist in the fashion industry reveals itself in her sensitive rendering of the large personalities of the industry. Despite the attention to individual detail, though, Agins seems to have only constructed these figures so that they might be situated into a faulty Doomsday scheme of history. Far from the whimpering, feeble creature that Agins suggests, fashion--whether Ungaro, Tommy, or Banana--has become one of few artistic forces to seize upon contemporary American culture with a resounding bang, not a whimper...
...Richard III, Kellerman can make the distance between two characters--often no more than a few feet, sometimes as small as a few inches--seem like the most important space in the world. And he can hold an audience breathless waiting not for a shout but for a whimper...
...with a bang but a whimper. That's how the intensive two-year investigation into the death of PRINCESS DIANA and DODI FAYED wound up as French magistrates dropped all charges against the photographers who pursued the couple on the night of the crash. The real culprit, say French officials, was driver HENRI PAUL, whose state of inebriation and medication made him lose control of the car on a dangerous stretch of road. But Dodi's father Mohammed al Fayed, billionaire owner of the Paris Ritz, is appealing the decision to drop charges. Convinced that Princess Diana was murdered...
...shame Stanley Kubrick isn't alive to make "Dr. Strangelove 2: How I Learned to Stop Engaging and Love the Cold War." Half a century after the freeze began with two big bangs and a decade after it ended with a long Russian whimper, could America really be headed back to its bomb shelters? Clinton, the president who tried, perhaps too fervently, to gain China instead of lose it all over again, is now being excoriated as the man who lost the U.S. instead. He gave them supercomputers for their infrastructure, and they used them to build bombs. He gave...