Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robinson loads the manipulatives--the little bars of different colors, each representing a different fraction--into plastic bags. When her students walk in, she distributes the bags. The book she was reading from on Friday is nowhere in evidence. She asks her pupils to use the bars to construct flat, box-shaped designs on their desks. Three of one color, they soon discover, will fill the same space as four of another. When each child has a mosaic on his or her desk, Robinson begins the verbal part of her lesson. She challenges them to come up with ways...
...three intermezzi and a rhapsody. The first of the set, the intermezzo in B minor, is the thing of devastating beauty. Though Goode's tempi were excessively free, his princely touch and his formidable intellectual grasp of the music overwhelmed all objections. His performance of the bravura E-flat minor rhapsody was the best of the four, demonstrating superior voicing and clealiness of fingerwork...
...usually hard to read, and his portrayal of an innocent reacting to the world around him is made more difficult to perceive through his evident detachment. Yee, as Papa Fu, seems similarly self-involved, weakening the important second act by delivering his long speeches in a tone somewhat too flat...
...though it hasn't seemed that way in the 1990s. The market may finally be entering a long overdue cooling period, which would naturally fix some glaring excesses in CEO pay--so long, that is, as companies resist the inevitable CEO pleadings to revise their pay deals in a flat or falling market...
...Mailer's Jesus sounds a tad like Ernest Hemingway here, so be it. The flat sentences effectively convey the step-by-step pleasure of learning a trade. The real Jesus may well have had such feelings. Far less successful are the many passages in which Mailer's Jesus sounds quite a bit like Norman Mailer...