Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the second movement of the Schubert came an increase in Gatti's emotional intensity, though physical dramatics for the most part remained conspicuously absent. At times one could see the conductor shaking his head from side to side--sometimes mouthing words to the first violins, sometimes gazing out above the mass of musicians with his lower lip protruding. Under his command, the orchestra executed the polyphonic intricacies of the Andante con Moto in perfect synchrony. One could feel the layers of music meshing throughout the hall as they blanketed the audience with their warmth...
...ironic that religion was remarkably absent from the discussion," said Ben S. Cariens, a second-year student at the Divinity School...
...middle class had begun leaving the city. Declining enrollment and an accelerating middle-class flight distilled the city's school population to the point where today more than 70% of students qualify for a free lunch, a standard marker of poverty. Nearly 35% of the city's pupils are absent more than 20 days a year, triple the rate in suburban Baltimore County. Fewer than half the city's ninth-graders passed the Maryland Functional Test in mathematics, which measures only the most basic skills; in Baltimore County, 85% passed...
Taking the reigns in its first three tournaments of the year, the Crimson has demonstrated an excitement and vitality which has been starkly absent from the program in recent years...
...conflict, and vicious politicking. This past summer, a national magazine published rumors of an extra-marital affair between Giuliani and a top aide. The story received wide coverage in both the local New York and national press. But despite the fact that the Mayor's wife has been conspicuously absent from his campaign events, the rumor seems to have fizzled as quickly as it flared...