Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hootie and the Blowfish and Pearl Jam are built up, and then, when they become successful, trashed by the very same tastemakers and trendmeisters who declared these acts worthwhile to begin with. Only a few bands like U2 and R.E.M. manage to escape the ritual slaughter and mature with grace...
...sober sitcom stars becoming an endangered species? Three weeks after Kelsey Grammer entered the Betty Ford Center, Brett Butler, star of Grace Under Fire, has announced that she's addicted to painkillers, and will start treatment as an outpatient. Butler, a recovering alcoholic who said in her recent autobiography that she spent 17 years high, first took the drugs for back pain...
...evening had a communal ending as the crowd and panelists joined to sing Amazing Grace and students congregated on the stage to continue conversations with the authors...
...Franco Dragone's grand and elaborate design. Each show is identifiably Cirque, yet as distinct as a new Robert Wilson opera production. Like other Cirque shows, Quidam has a dozen or so main acts. As the featured artists parade the genius of their bodies in stunts of strength and grace, Cirque's menagerie (Edvard Munch's silent screamer, Clive Barker's Pinhead and dozens of other glamorous mutants) capers around them like bit players in an amiable madman's reverie. Ballerina-contortionists flex gaily; Pierrots bodysurf across the stage on skateboards; the man with the newspaper floats in midair. Dragone...
AWARDED. To WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, 73, masterly Polish poet of the prosaic; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The Academy described her as the "Mozart of poetry." Her flowing verses and everyday imagery reveal the grace and depth of simplicity...