Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rendell's attempts at substance fall flat. She periodically injects clumsy melodramatic flourishes intended to highlight a thoughtful subtext to the play which just isn't there. Towards the end, one character stares out at the audience and pronounces with infinite gravity, "It's time to go home," as if he were impeaching a president. In the final scene, tourists on a bridge turn to face the audience one by one, in time with the resonant chimes of Big Ben, like so many horsemen of the Apocalypse. The play does not have a dark, gritty core, and any ponderous attempts...
...might be very useful for students to highlight the other course that have some things of ethnic studies. That's quite different from creating a department, Green said...
...celebrate the 40th anniversary of the discovery that opened a new era. The site was the century-old Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York's Long Island, where Watson, host of the glittering symposium, has served as director for 25 years. The appearance of the reclusive Crick helped highlight the event; he seldom ventures forth from California's Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where for the past 17 years he has been studying the brain. "Jim is an administrator and manager," Crick explains. "I'm still caught up in research...
...outside of the Beanpot, a Boston tradition worthy of network attention, it got no air time (AT) whatsoever apart from the occasional highlight reel...
...Saints used to feature one of the most high-powered offenses in the nation, but have stumbled this year. Greg Carvel's 28 points (7 goals, 21 assists) have been the lone highlight. On defense, goalie Brady Giroux, who splits time with Paul Spagnoletti (whom Harvard shelled in a 10-4 win in January), is a rock. He posts a 2.87 goals-against-average, and .908 save percentage as the fifth best netminder in the league...