Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MIZRAHI] Uniform Consultant. "We think Isaac could lend a substantial 'cool' factor to fast-food-delivery companies like Domino's Pizza...
From here on the going gets dicier and, in terms of the future of heart treatment, more interesting. On the horizon, and closing fast, are experimental techniques--most immediately gene and laser therapies--that have the potential to make yesterday's miracles (bypasses and angioplasties) seem like rudimentary plumbing repairs. Remember: potential...
...trying to decide whether to buy the PlayStation or the N64, I went with the Sony. With 10 times as many games to choose from, there didn't seem to be a contest. I hadn't seen any evidence that Nintendo's 64-bit processor (twice as fast as the PlayStation's) made a great difference in game play. Besides, Sony-only games like the Crash Bandicoot series--which sold more than 5 million copies--proved to be as good as, if not better than, Nintendo's best. The latest in the series, Crash Bandicoot: Warped ($49) was shipped...
Perhaps the most abstract film of the four from the Ma'ale school was Hadar Friedlich's Fast of Words, an examination of the attempts of a writer, photographer and musician to spend an entire day without speaking. The remaining films were concerned with issues particular to Judaism, yet the issues were nonetheless resonant among even non-Jews. Yaakov Freedland's Fragments of a Dream set the archetypal figures of the willful: an army-bound son and the proud father unwilling to leave his violent homeland amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The theme of self-sacrifice for the sake...
...Celebrity Series artists are generous this year--Ohlsson gave four well-chosen encores, beginning with a sansculottes Revolutionary etude, and continuing with a glib. graceful Mazurka (Op. 30 No. 4), an ostentatiously fast and harrowing C-sharp Etude (Op. 10 No. 4), and a morsel of Scriabine farfallonery, the Etude Op. 49 No. 3. In effect these encores were four excellent piano lessons...