Word: failed
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...grape coalition, we fail to understand what has inspired such long-lasting passion. It's a fruit. Perhaps a tastier-than-average fruit, but a fruit nonetheless. Would the fruit be sweeter than the victory in this battle? We aren't so certain...
...Justice Department and Netscape should stop whining about Microsoft's alleged monopoly. In a competitive marketplace, failure to serve customers means that the competition wins. The Sherman Antitrust Act was never designed to protect companies that fail to provide service and then whine when their customers turn to competitors for it. JOHN M. SHONTZ Helena, Mont...
...grimacing or missing her note in a dramatic squawk, is also worthwhile, as are many of Quilici's passages. But neither lead is ultimately compelling as a character or performer. And many of the choral members are simply liabilities to the production--their varying quality of vocal contributions fail to outweigh the ridiculous mugging and noise-making which someone apparently considered lively or endearing. In a fourth-grade production, such bounding and gasping might be cute, but here at Harvard, where great dramatic and musical talent abounds, and in Purcell's lovely setting of a great tragedy, these can only...
...fare less well; in the first act, they are distinctly eccentric. Medbh's sweater and jeans and socks visibly dirty on the bottom form a convincing ensemble, but the black jacket, cherry skirt and purple print blouse that Catherine sports when walking in the door from New York decidedly fail to convey a sense of a city sophisticate. The overall effect is as if the actors had raided their closets for unworn apparel. (The actors' brogues are similarly patched together; although vaguely European, most of these accents are not from the Emerald Isle...
Anastasia and Pocahontas, however, fail to fall within the basic parameters of historical dialogues on their subject. Commenting on Pocahontas, Douglas B. Rand '98, one of Harvard's veteran Disney watchdogs and self-styled Disneyologist, has observed, "Pocahontas is not even revisionist history. It is not even debating the legitimacy of our current historical paradigm, because Disney is not even entering the realm of debate. Whereas we can have a scholarly discourse on what lens we use to view reality, Disney is going so far afield that they are concocting their own reality...