Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came back to Harvard after a brief time off and a military discharge...
...Mexico as Edward Hopper's urban loners are of New York City. Also in Santa Fe, from June 3 through Aug. 16, is Santa Fe Stages: the International Theater Festival, for which the city will be host to everything from Canadian avant-gardists (a brochure warns of "brief nudity") to a women-in-drag version of Sherlock Holmes from Britain. Devotees of more traditional performing arts may want to venture north to the Taos Pueblo Powwow, running from July 11 through July 13. Some 45 to 50 Native American tribes will gather to take part in exhibitions and competitions with...
...scream about ice cream. Some 30% of ICE CREAM lovers wind up with a brief but intense headache within seconds of taking a mouthful. The reason: when cold hits the back of the palate, nerve fibers become irritated, sending pain signals straight to the head...
...through eloquent looks before the arrival of the Gentleman Caller; but opened up with marvelous expressiveness in the tete-a-tete with her former high school "crush." In face, voice, and gesture, she touchingly evoked the painful shyness and self-consciousness of the disabled girl who is given one brief chance to bloom. Yet she also possessed an air of unexpected (and deeply affecting) grace and dignity in the most heartbreaking moment of the play...
...simply "slowed down" after graduating. O'Reilly deftly depicted the character's undaunted narcissism (which ends up huring Laura badly), yet also made one feel the something inherently likeable and charming that had attracted her. There was real poignancy in his one moment of elevation, inspired by Laura's brief blossoming but immediately subsiding into the comfortable obliviousness...