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...defense of the University rose President Neil L. Rudenstine, who, in a deft maneuver, vacillated between dodging responsibility and pleading ignorance. Meanwhile, the rest of the Faculty resorted to that timeless rhetorical technique, "gasping and hissing"--a method of retort that gained its popularity during meetings of the Smurf cartoon village...
...that have an airy, panoramic sound and enough lonesome twang to fill a steel-guitar convention. She also comes with an impressive calling card: her lovely acoustic ballad A Soft Place to Fall was a breakout hit from the soundtrack to last spring's The Horse Whisperer. Moorer's deft songwriting proves she can live up to the advance billing. Classic mid-tempo heartbreakers like Tell Me Baby and Set You Free are her specialty, coaxing a gorgeously plaintive edge from her voice. Moorer may not have the pipes to belt it out like k.d. lang, nor the furious inner...
...talking, history-obsessed prisoners of their own appetites, have always been their own worst enemy and each other's salvation. Clinton's ideological overreaching helped put Gingrich in the Speaker's chair; Gingrich's arrogance and petulance handed Clinton his re-election. The lesson for both: it takes a deft touch to set the right trap; but if you do, the other one will stumble right into...
...muster, for example, to explain societal degradation is to insist simplistically that "lawyers and loan sharks/are laying America to waste." There are small pleasures to be had on Taming the Tiger, like Mitchell's confidently unconventional melodies, her dark and smoke-ravaged voice and the occasional appearances of deft saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Still, one can't help but wonder what happened to Joni Mitchell since we lost her 20 years ago. On Taming the Tiger, at least, she is nowhere to be found...
...doing?'" Instantly, the room temperature drops to arctic levels as Bassett pretends to stare a hole through someone talking to her. "Then, after I became known, it was, 'Oh, I love you.'" And she swoops down from the chair, practically to her knees, in a deft satire of sycophancy. Drama, pain, comedy--Acting...