Word: harshness
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Despite his inaction, Clinton seems to understand the stakes of this conflict. In a world riven on ethnic lines, what is to be the international standard for ensuring fair treatment of minorities? The harsh cloud that hovers over the new policy, however, is that at this late date the US may be unable to put together the demanding stance needed to serve those very large stakes. The ends and means of Clinton's policy are at odds...
...usually involving some old curmudgeon's coming to rosy terms with the imperfections of the world he is about to leave. These plays, whose "reality" is rooted not in life but in prior plays, movies and TV, shy away from the raw emotions of fear and grief and the harsh facts of the body's decline, trivializing the eternal mystery they pretend to revere. What makes Wrong Turn at Lungfish more than usually disappointing is that most such plays don't have George C. Scott (although last season's revival of the similarly smarmy On Borrowed Time did), and most...
...ability to hold a melody shined through in his renditions of the Alcalan marching song and the plaintive aria to Carmen in the second act. But his positioning and gesturing were unguided, empty and often too quick and emphatic. His crescendos were sudden where they should have been gradual, harsh when they should have caressed the ear. He sang his part with technical aplomb but not with the heartfelt inspiration of a great portrayal...
Michael P. Beys has been chair of the Council for just over one week and the staff has written a harsh editorial condemning his political practices. The only accusation directly related to Beys is the $10,000 loss on last spring's De La Soul concert. The rest of the editorial lashes out at the Council in general, only making cursory references to Beys...
Last week the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, issued a harsh report accusing Bush's Justice Department of failing to put enough resources into investigating the criminal dealings that resulted in the collapse of hundreds of S&Ls. Nearly 2,800 financial institutions went bankrupt in 1981 and 1992, with losses that could eventually total $300 billion. The Justice Department has almost 10,000 investigations under way, and its defenders point out that it has so far won 95% of its prosecutions for S&L fraud...