Word: flattering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nothing about this production is groundbreaking, but the work put in by Lapine and his cast is admirable. A greater variation of feeling and behavior by Mr. and Mrs. Frank would make some of the play's flatter scenes more interesting, but the performance is upheld by the simple emotional power of the story. The ideas of this production of are all at the surface, candidly expressed, which is just what the story requires. The Diary of Anne Frank retains its potency as a work that illuminates a terrible chapter of the past and one girl's remarkable capacity...
Ironically, Picasso doesn't really nail painting until he starts using a lot less paint. As we move into his more well-known work of the Blue and Rose Periods, we find that the surfaces become far more controlled, flatter and less overtly "painterly." Only when Picasso retreats from the heavily textured impasto of his earlier canvases do we feel his work becoming more assured and less self-conscious. Somewhere along the way he realizes that he doesn't need to prove he's a painter by giving the viewer countless energetic strokes and layers of thick paint...
...Lori and I would sit by the windows, sharing our hopes and dreams about how much our new children would love us, of how we could steer them away from certain types of drugs that they might have too much fun with and toward those cosmetic procedures that would flatter their looks. "Imagine," Lori dreamed aloud one night. "Knowing what seasons your colors are before you're even born! Lucky, lucky children...
...having a heck of a postseason. His album Odelay has sold only about 750,000 copies; in contrast, Celine Dion's Falling into You, another Album of the Year nominee, has sold more than 7 million. But in a year when overall record sales were flat and creativity seemed flatter, Beck has become a critics' darling, deservedly so, and has garnered an impressive number of end-of the-year accolades. Rolling Stone's music-savvy readers voted Odelay the Album of the Year; rival music magazine Spin selected Beck as Artist of the Year. Says Michael Greene, president...
Nevertheless, when the Crusaders took a 38-36 lead on a layup by Patrick Tutwiler, the Crimson became noticeably flatter. That basket was the first of a 12-4 Holy Cross run, after which Harvard never got closer than six points from the lead...