Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also worthy of esteem was the Autumn Adagio Molto, with the rich initial phrasing of the baroque guitar played with bravura by Olav Chris Henriksen. With Gibbon's rhythmic, plucking continuo, the music lulled guests into imaginary dulcet slumber. During the Allegro, the orchestra, which had been struggling a bit at first with dynamics and synchronicity, finally gelled and the harpsichord rocked along, tying the ends together splendidly...
...houses. We couldn't disagree more with such a position. The contribution of religious ceremony to house life is certainly no less than that of a coffeehouse, an opera or a drag night. While we hold all of these communal activities (whether art or debauchery) in high esteem, we cannot regard religious observance with a lower degree of honor. Raise the nativity scene. Light the menorah. Celebrate a public Ramadan. Religious students should be encouraged by house masters and the administration to express themselves in this way, and funds within the budgets of house social committees should be made available...
Reweaving the threads of our tattered social institutions is an admirable aim, but many women will settle for the more attainable goal of retrieving their lost self-esteem. And that, say many, is what makes The First Wives Club so uplifting. "They did something constructive with the money [by setting up a crisis center] and left you feeling that they were not bitter, bitchy women," says Beverly Hills therapist Carole West. Sugar Rautbord, a divorced Chicago socialite and author of the novel Sweet Revenge, agrees. "It's not about going off a cliff like Thelma and Louise did," she explains...
...result, many kids who would otherwise be hanging around aimlessly are working and training in a constructive atmosphere that builds their self-esteem, Parker says...
...audience as the perplexed and frustrated theater owners, Firmin and Andre, respectively. Carlotta, played by Kelly Ellenwood, makes and excellent egotistical prima donna. However, in this particular production, she seems more pitiful and needy than she does vicious and greedy. Her companion, Piangi (Stefano Fucile), possesses both a self-esteem and a voice pompous enough to match hers. Hating the two of them is still enjoyable, but not exactly a pleasure...