Word: flare
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Thus Hosfield’s actors aren’t concentrating on finding emotional nuance, as much as they are focused on giving their roles personal flare. Their acting method demands an immediate connection with the audience. And with the production’s minimal lighting, set design and accompaniment, the actors shoulder the bulk of the work’s impact as they attempt to create what Hosfield deems “a community of outrage...
Kuumba’s greatest strength is the energy, honesty and passion of its performances and this recording amply demonstrate this flare. Songs like “Get Your House” highlight the interplay between soloist and choir, as the soloist leads with an ornamented phrase (“Get your house in order!”) and the choir responds with a potent punch (“Do it today!”) One song opens with W.E.B. Du Bois’ Class of 1890 description of the “sorrow songs,” and builds...
...Deficit,” Oct.25), last Wednesday President Bush signed into law the largest military budget increase in two decades, authorizing $355.5 billion to give the Pentagon “every resource, every weapon, and every tool they need.” Instead of working out problems that will flare up into national security threats later on, we are overspending and indulging our military in the hopes that we can stave off these threats as they develop. Such an approach will perpetuate the need for always increasing military expenditures. A recent report from the National Intelligence Council identifies the AIDS...
What they find is $1,200-to-$1,500 dresses that have a fresh-from-the-womb maturity. Heavily darted, they're '40s-style shapely; they flare at the hem and enhance the bust and waist. Several spring looks are constructed of thin bands of material sewn together horizontally, like belts, that can be adjusted. "I think the idea of self-tailoring is very modern," says Posen. "I want to embrace the creativity of people. Besides, all women fuss with their clothes." His pattern-making skill is almost mathematical, fitting flat geometric shapes to moving form. "My clothes are supportive...
...That was the season when hundreds of people in the western state of Gujarat were killed in India's worst Hindu-Muslim clashes in a decade. The killings began on Feb. 27; after 72 hours of complete mayhem, violence continued to flare for almost six weeks. The unofficial death toll now exceeds 2,000, and the vast majority of the dead are Muslims. Women's groups and human-rights organizations like the Citizen's Initiative have published scores of testimonies from eyewitnesses claiming that women were gang-raped. Tens of thousands of Muslims fled their homes to more than...