Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time at Harvard brings us closer to adulthood. Every day, we are forced to make decisions that influence the path our lives will take. Be it choosing classes, deciding which extracurricular activities to pour our hearts into, or evaluating whether or not a certain dining hall meal is edible, we are constantly making choices. Resolving questions such as these for ourselves leads to a higher level of maturity and propels us toward adulthood, toward an existence as freely-choosing individuals...
Sacred Heart stepped up the defensive intensityin the second half and improved its offensiveeffectiveness, but could not pull closer thaneight while Harvard cruised to victory...
...expect special effects, saccharine plots and Bruce Willis; while from the latter we can expect intellectual affects, subtle plots and a British actor who just finished a run in a critically acclaimed drama on the West End, and of whom you've likely never heard. One is edging ever closer towards television, the other towards drama, and we who enjoy both, or neither, are left in the middle hunting for that elusive genre, the movie...
...played more conservatively and reserved than expected, but perhaps more in Beethoven's intended spirit. Conservative in the sense that they played it up-tempo, the Sydney Symphony brought the piece closer to what Beethoven probably had planned and closer in sound to Mozart. Reserved in the sense that the orchestra played No. 2 as a concerto and not as a symphony. De Waart's conducting gestures were never forced, were never angularly abrupt. This added to the fact that the muted vibrations of the orchestra and the sweet mellow tone of the piano actually, at times, cast more silence...
...without too much damage to their taste. (There can be a pulverizing effect, however, so I recommend a sturdy shoebox.) Only your smile might give away the nature of the treasured contents when you go to claim them. And so the remedy to college food ho-hums may be closer then the next family holiday meal: prepare to enjoy the taste of home on your very own futon...