Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's a lot to pack into a brisk hour and a half, and Mamet himself cannot quite pull it off. Oleanna plays a little too fast and loose with its characters to be quite as compelling as one would like. The production of Oleanna mounted last weekend at the Loeb Ex, however, further compromised an already flawed script. In adapting a play about the complexities of meaning, director Leah Altman '99 and her cast took a fatally broad, superficial approach to their tricky material...
...same rich variety of instruments as the opera L'Orfeo: strings, cornetti, sackbuts, recorders, organs, lutes, harpsichords; it uses the same numbers and types of voices, and most of the same wonderful musical techniques: tricky echoes that turn the last syllables of a phrase into a new word; fantastic fast notes; learned counterpoint. It is a piece drawing specifically on the talents of the musicians Monteverdi regularly worked with...
...People hear women's hockey, and think they're not fast, they can't play, they won't hit. Yeah, we can't check, but we're still fast and have skill. Without the hitting, the game is faster and it allows for more skill...
Harvard held its opponents to 62 points per game this season by putting excellent pressure on the ball, forcing turnovers and converting steals into easy buckets at the offensive end. Those fast break layups become crucial in tough games...
...recorded a demo that the family sent to Curb Records, a small company in Nashville, Tennessee, that promptly signed her to a recording deal. About a year later, the title song for her first album, Blue, propelled the youngster to the top of the country charts and onto the fast track to stardom. The song was written for Patsy Cline, who died before she could record it, but it seems made for Rimes. The melody is thick and generous, and even if you're not into country, when Rimes' wild-berry-sweet voice yodels through the hook-filled chorus--"blooOOooOOoo...