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...While we are happy for Professor Wilkins, thisone vote doesn't detract from the larger issue,"said Bonifaz. "Whether or not there's going to bea real change is to be seen in the hiringdecisions of the next few months...
Certainly, CCH has an interest in Gomes' resignation, for whatever reason. That fact should detract nothing from the facts--and the University's unwillingness to disclose them...
...Kameri). The Venticelli are cold and supercilious while the nobles are earnest and straightforward in their delivery: thoughtful characterization would have thing the other way around. Finally, overacting is a recurring problem with these roles, since minor disputes and even neutral exchanges inevitably explode into shouting-matches, threatening to detract even from Wu's thoughtful and truly moving performance...
...waffle about the expansiveness of his music without stopping to think what it is about. The message that is built into the Magic Flute concerns love, human and divine, fraternal and romantic. The element of farce that is undeniably present in the opera does not obliterate or even minimally detract from the power of this message. It is a message, though, that is only implicit, and that needs to be interpreted--which is what the Lowell House Opera production of the Magic Flute has failed...
...comparison to his innumerable usage of "motherfucker," but we won't nag him)--and we wonder how he can be so adamant about self-control in race relations but still permit himself to be dragged around by his independently-minded appendages. Which, of course, does not for a second detract from how cool the music...