Word: whimpers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is all they do. In Lanford Wilson's off-Broadway hit, the inmates and their equally downtrodden keeper yell, moan, squawk and whimper at each other for about two hours. When the play ends, their home is one day closer to its demise: so are they; nothing else has changed. Because the play has virtually no plot, it relies entirely on its characters to propell it along and keep its audience interested. And because the actors in this Dunster House production make the residents neither believable nor interesting, Hot I Baltimore makes for an almost unrelievedly dreary evening...
...strike, there'll be a public outcry," Michael T. Crehan '81, a leader of the protest efforts, predicted Wednesday. But Harvard's shuttle buses are not part of the Massachusetts Bay Transity Authority, and as the drivers' Monday deadline for a settlement approached, not a whimper of general support for the workers' crusade was heard...
...Life During Wartime" set the pattern for the whole new generation of war songs: no protest but a whimper, no hope but many prayers. With the fatalism of a musical form that matured while protesting one war and lives today to witness the conception of another, rock and roll waits for World War III supine, recumbent. It's as though, faced with ICBMs and oil embargoes, musicians are starting at their electric guitars and drum kits and shaking their heads, paralyzed and powerless...
...surprising that South Korea's military dictatorship has tried to clamp down on democratic forces in an effort to consolidate its grip. Nor is it surprising that the regime refuses to cleave to democratic principles, particularly when the U.S. does nothing more than whimper. It is time, then, for Carter to surprise everyone by sticking to his pledge to support human rights and to decry violators of democratic precepts. Given that South Korea is a "strategic ally" and given the investment the U.S. has sunk there, it is as obvious a place as any to start...
...business of selling magic, and our return is joy." Contrasted with other tokens of affection and celebration, like chocolates, balloons are not fattening; unlike flowers, they do not need watering or sunlight. And when the party's over, they can go out not with a whimper...