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Word: brightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record of a performance in a provincial opera house, with shots of the audience thrown in to be sure you understood the universality of Mozart's message. Losey never wavers from his no-holds-barred outdoors staging, using the Palladio villas near Vicenza as an occasional refuge from the bright sun that over-exposes many of the scenes...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Donning the Screen | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

Without an analytical personal of Henry James to crystalize these routine affairs into clear gems of human nature, we have to trust that the characters are the way they appear to be or are the way they say they are. When Felix wears bright flowered suspenders with checkered pants he looks like a fool. When Gertrude says that her family makes use of all 1000 ways to be dreary; when Felix says that in marrying him Gertrude would be hiding her light under a bushel, he being the bushel; and when Eugenia says she is a deserted baroness left with...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: The Missing James | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

More than anything, the meet was a showcase for Harvard's aquatic power. The Crimson grabbed nine of 13 events and could have held Columbia's point total under 25. Considering that the devastated Lions finished sixth at last year's Easterns, the future hardly looks bright for the Crimson's East Coast rivals...

Author: By John S. Bruce, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Aquamen Torpedo Columbia | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Harvard hockey, in the midst of resurrecting a lost tradition, relived its best forgotten recent past when RPI goalie Kevin Constantine led a squad of upstart foes past the Crimson, 6-2, at the Bright Hockey Center Saturday night...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Engineers Hand Icemen First Setback | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...casual visitor, it looks like a typical boarding school for the overprivileged-300 acres in Stockbridge, Mass., a mansion, dorms, art studios, a gym, music rehearsal rooms and a barn, and 150 teen-agers so bright-faced and chipper that local residents say they can identify them by the "DeSisto glow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Getting that DeSisto Glow | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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