Word: elements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply for the sake of the children (and there were many in this audience), the Boston Ballet could never leave out these essentials of so universal a fairy tale. Yet, twists of character and additional elements of style transcend the basic story-line, bringing an element of theater to dance. In a spirit that combines a touch of Shakespearean drama with Hasty Pudding theatricals, the ever predictable evil stepsisters are not so predictable. In the first scene of Act I, the stepsisters enter the stage dauntingly tall, grotesquely covered in makeup, and shockingly clumsy, heavy and graceless. If this contrast...
...most intriguing element of the advertisements has to be the actual content of the "New Spirit" ad. Beyond its grammatical and syntactic mistakes, it says that the Council's new mission is to help "undergraduates setting their own priorities [and] creating their own rules and guidelines...
...issue of empire adds a complicating element to his reception in this country. American publishers, catering to a society which still insists on racially segregated literary traditions, tout Phillips as a part of a "new wave of young Black writers," along with novelists like Darryl Pinckney and Charles Johnson. But Phillips says he fits in more with other British writers who were "born in the old empire...People like Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri and Salman Rushdie...In the last ten years or so a lot of British writers have had a fix from another part of the world and have...
...Implicit in the idea of professionalism is the recognition by those in positions of authority that in their relationships with students or staff there is always an element of power," states the report...
...life is great economics ever relevant? Well, yes and no," Warsh writes. "Certainly not in any everyday sense, but overall, there may be an element of sexual style involved in theory choice...