Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still more questionable; something simpler, more ethereal, and more delicate, like the fragile glass animals, would seem to be in order rather than the elaborate ornamentation of a Bach violin concerto. The lighting, on the other hand, was fairly standard, shifting from an initial dimness to "candlelight" in the crucial Laura-Jim scene, to complete darkness as Laura blows the candle out. A wise choice if not a particularly exciting one: conventionality doesn't detract from its emotional effectiveness...
...made a few mistakes at crucial points in the game that cost us," sophomore right fielder Andrew Huling said. "We got a little too anxious because [Saxman] wasn't throwing that many strikes, and [we] maybe swung at some bad pitches, but I thought we hit pretty well...
...think there's something fundamentally different between inventing a medium and dismantling a medium, which I mentioned earlier. I am deeply opposed to the idea of resurrecting painting and sculpture, so inventing a medium seems to me a crucial problem, and it's not unrelated to what we talked about earlier in terms of the real value of the discipline. But still, we could hardly call James Coleman or even Jeff Wall young artists since they both emerged in the '70s. So what I'm really saying is that I think most critics have about twenty years when they...
...Cosette (Kate Fisher) falls in love with the student Marius (Rich Affannato), whom the Thenardiers' daughter eponine (Rona Figueroa) also secretly loves. Meanwhile, all Paris is one the brink of revolution, which breaks out with appropriate passion in Act II, bringing all the characters, especially Valjean, to their final, crucial test...
...House desperately grubbing for campaign dollars have focused on Asian Americans with strong business ties to their native lands. Now Republicans tell Time the G.O.P. has profited from an Asian money connection as well. Twice in two years Hong Kong businessman Ambrous Tung Young bailed out the party at crucial moments: first freeing up as much as $2 million in the final days before the G.O.P.'s 1994 sweep of Congress; then eating $500,000 in bad debts, rescuing Republicans in the last weeks of the 1996 contest. The conduit for the money was a U.S. firm with little income...