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...There is absolutely no magic from her first entrance in the Sibelius, and her tone simpers more than it captivates. During the most dramatic moments of the piece, one wonders whether she is capable of producing anything outside of the dynamic rangepiano to mezzo-forte-I often heard her bow biting into the string, but her tone gets lost somewhere between the f-holes and the microphone...

Author: By Brian D. Koh, | Title: Midori Plays to Mediocrity | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

Meanwhile, in front of Sever Hall, two punches, arrayed in white clothing and bow ties, passed out literature concerning the relation of lactose to communist insurgency and offered chocolate milk to passers...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Punches Participate in Initiation Week | 12/1/1994 | See Source »

...figure is 2,500). And between 1985 and 1990, cocaine seizures in the country went up from 129 grams a year to 68.8 kilos. What gives Speed Tribes its piquancy is the way these very modern problems play off against the vestiges of tradition. Motorcycle gangs, for example, bow to one another at a rumble. A mobster visits his godfather on Respect for the Aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Teriyaki | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...what looked like a bow to the tobacco industry, the Speaker-to-be passed over Moorehead a second time in choosing the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The outgoing Democratic chairman, John Dingell, was the impresario of this year's subcommittee hearings on whether cigarette companies were manipulating the nicotine level of their product. The new head will be Thomas Bliley Jr. of the tobacco state of Virginia, who thinks cigarette regulation has gone quite far enough already. "Carlos is too kind a man to get into the kind of vicious fights that will occur over issues before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Revolution | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

Firstly, I refuse to retract my statements nor bow to the paternalistic style of journalism that The Crimson endorses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Oversteps Its Bounds | 11/8/1994 | See Source »

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