Word: squawking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insisted last week, "What we've done here does not waddle enough to be called ducks." Perhaps. But since the nearly $6 billion in revenue enhancements enacted last week will rise to $30 billion over the next five years, taxpayers may be forgiven if they exercise their right to squawk...
HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live, breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Thatcher's England...
HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Margaret Thatcher's England...
...hopes for a less harum-scarum future? Perhaps pause to admire a brave and subtle film that knowingly explores ideas, even ideologies, but never dries up emotionally -- a film that never puts its characters' duties to metaphor ahead of their prime obligation, which is to live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity...
...played by a homogenized modern orchestra, its raw power is sanded away along with its rough edges. Hearing it is like watching a colorized film: the superficial enhancement is more than offset by the loss of nuance and detail. But on early instruments, the flutes purr, the oboes squawk, the brass barks, and the strings alternately cajole and bite. "This is not a pureed, strained cup of tea that you might drink in the back of a limousine," says Norrington. "This is a bracing beverage quaffed in a well- sprung vehicle...