Word: acted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...atthis 10-person round table. There were all thesefamous singers at the table and talking over me--Icouldn't eat my sandwich because I was sooverwhelmed by the supreme talent of these greatmusicians. This was my first taste of what wasgoing on backstage. When I came back for Act IIthe next day, they all remembered my name. Thosethree days were the turning point, going from LongIsland and to knowing people in the real OperaWorld. It just made me see that I could do it andit became a tangible goal. Before that I didn'twant to go to music school because...
...population, no matter how talented or wise, will make better decisions more frequently than the nation as a whole. We recognize the right of all individuals to participate in the governing process, to help choose the laws under which they must live. Possession of marijuana, though an act which may deserve punishment, does not merit permanent severance from the body politic...
...this sounds like a pretty limited vision for the council, that's exactly the point. Aside from its discretionary power over everyone else's funding, the council stands on the same level as any other student group. Its best hope for legitimacy is to act as a successful liaison between universal undergraduate interests and the administration...
...there is a fault to the production, it isthat it had to end--the way it did. Into thesecond act, the momentum so well built up in thefirst begins to wind down. The "Hollywood ending,"with its hurried hodge-podge, shallow staging andgarish coloring, undoes the sophisticatedsubtleties which made the rest of the show sorich. What had promised to be a scorching andsultry tale of thwarted amour and twisted ambitioncatches itself in a burlesque conclusion...
...into a characteristic feature of the design and symbol of the museum. His 1986 Stadthaus in Ulm, Germany was only built after a tenth referendum finally approved its construction. The building was intended to replace an area used for parking in front of the historic Gothic cathedral there and act as a center for the town...