Word: expression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senior, I have spent the last four years accepting the illogical policy of not having universal key card access, but as this issue is coming up for discussion, I think that it is important for students to express their frustration about this policy. For me, this policy indicates that the administration does not truly trust the students in this community...
...economic pillars of many rural districts throughout the South: agriculture and the military. In Congress he lovingly cared for eastern Carolina's Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune. And he defended subsidies for tobacco, peanuts and hogs (one of the district's biggest exporters was called Carolina Oink Express...
...also has that rare ability to make show-biz emotions seem sincere; when she hits those big payoff notes, she doesn't do it just because she can; she does it because the song calls for it, because the big note she's holding is the only way to express what she's feeling. Higher Ground, unfortunately, is more of a low-lying plateau. It's an album of spiritually oriented "inspirational" songs--a hot genre right now, given LeAnn Rimes' hit collection of similarly themed material. Higher Ground, for its part, is a little too polite. Streisand...
...that you have to put together with a conductor and orchestra, and so the success depends on the nature of the compromises made--how willing the conductor is to let you do your thing. In a recital you perform for longer, have an expanded sense of the repertoire, and express a greater variety of musical ideas. The difference between playing for 25 and 75 minutes is immense. So, doing a concerto is an experience that is sometimes great, but can also be decidedly not. In a recital there are no compromises. I know exactly what I want...
...argue that if the art, however, inaccurate, interests a few people in the history, then that is itself enough. True as this may be, it is merely an unwitting side-effect. A film like Glory was made with the express intent of drawing attention to the contribution of black soldiers to the Union Army war effort during the Civil War. The success of this endeavor was dependent on the movie being perceived as historically credible. Such can be said of neither Anastasia nor Pocahontas. For the handful of people whom they might interest in history, these movies create a legion...