Word: louder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after intermission, but the second and concluding act is mercifully short enough to avoid killing the fun. The audience is growing a little impatient by now, waiting for the Theatrical's can-can forte, and people begin to shout at the actors in mid song and mid dialogue "Funnler. Louder!" one person yells. "You're so sexy great legs, Rick!" shouts out another Moments later. "Take it off" becomes a back-row rallying cry. another patron with high alcoholic content loudly observes to Gustave that he is fat. But the overriding chant is Rick-line!" The audience is turned...
Today the ticking may be louder than ever. Despite local officials' pleas for swift action, the agency took until two months ago to identify the 418 sites it regards as most dangerous. Of those, it has cleansed only five. Meanwhile, roiling criticism of the agency and its controversial administrator, Anne Gorsuch, attracted the attention of two congressional subcommittees, which began investigating charges that the EPA had made "sweetheart" deals with polluting companies and delayed cleanups for political reasons. When Gorsuch refused in December to turn over subpoenaed documents pertaining to 160 Superfund sites, she was cited for contempt...
Senior tutors and freshman proctors also notice changes in student behavior during Reading Period. Vicki Jones, a Wiggles worth proctor, notes that noise levels in Yard dorms drop considerably, although the Union seems louder than ever. "And around the dorms, Saturday night is quiet--people are studying A weekend isn't like a weekend--Saturday is just another day in Reading Period," she says...
Nowhere was the outrage louder than in London. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons that "this slaughter of innocent people is the product of evil and depraved minds an act of callous and brutal men." Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Prior, who visited the scene, called it "a massacre without mercy ... [one of] the most cold-blooded acts of savagery [ever] carried out in Northern Ireland." Though the I.N.L.A. apparently receives little aid from North America, a conservative M.P. seized the occasion to denounce the "collection of funds for the I.R.A...
...need a new departure. We must give more importance to the U.N. and take it more seriously, both in the positive and negative aspects. The U.N. is vital to American interests." The paradox is that as the U.S. strives to prove that point, the uproar is liable to grow louder along the banks of Manhattan's East River. -By George Russell. Reported by Louis Malasz/United Nations and Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington