Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well into six figures. By the time the show opened last week, however, the publicity about a wunderkind proved a disadvantage: it imposed unreasonable expectations and, for some spectators, turned what would have been a pleasant surprise into mild disappointment that its author is merely a deft % entertainer, not another Tennessee Williams...
LOVE LETTERS. Colleen Dewhurst and Josef Sommer are this week's stars in the rotating off-Broadway cast of A.R. Gurney's deft, disarming tale of a half- century relationship lived out largely via pen and paper...
...heavy torch. On One Bright Day, the new album he made with the Melody Makers (his younger brother Stephen and two of his sisters, Sharon and Cedella), there is a lot of tradition and a little trailblazing. "This album to me sound a little stronger," says Ziggy, 20, with deft Rasta inflections. "A little stronger in the beat. It feel harder, with more aggression. I sing it more aggressive. I'm getting older. Music is a weapon. You can use a gun for murder, or you can use it to defend yourself." That's the choice: clap hands...
Bernays, who teaches at the Harvard Extension School, is also deft and amusing in exposing the inside world of academe--the mundane faculty meetings, prima donna behavior and mucked-up administration that is so much a part of what goes on around here...
This orchestra, like Sellars' repertory company of gifted young singers, performs admirably under the deft and scrupulous conducting of Craig Smith, and so it is a pleasure to find that Sellars has pretty much left the performers alone in one of the three operas, Figaro. The setting in the Trump Tower is no more than a mild gag, not another excuse for wholesale Sellarsization. Donald Trump does not appear from behind a bush. The singers just sing, and sing beautifully. What a relief...