Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, these faults are made tolerable because Tyrell has surrounded himself with some distinguished sidemen. Venerable trumpeters Clark Terry and the late "Sweets" Edison adorn "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" with raunchy and sweet touches, while Robbyn Kirmss acquits herself well with slightly tortured expressions on "The Very Thought of You." But while Tyrell's renditions are competent, intimate and become more endearing with time, there's nothing to make your heart, well, sing...
...Latins struggle with cancer is symbolic of the waning force of humanism. Until the 90s, humanism was the primary discourse of white opposition to apartheid. But the tenuous hope Coetzee expresses in Age of Iron for the survival of humanism despite the violence of South Africas transitional years (the late 80s and early 90s) seems to have been snuffed out in Disgrace. The novel is set in the current phase of the countrys violent and troubled history. On the one hand, it is a phase characterized by criminal brutality on the part of former victims of apartheid...
...Rita, during a late night chat predicts that by the time all of her friends are thirty, each of them will be "incredible" and "pretty fucking amazing." By the end of the play that prediction has not come to fruition, and it is implied that their situation is not going to be much better when the women are forty. The travails of these young women trying to carve a place in society for all future women are difficult, and sometimes a bit depressing, but they are still a pleasure to watch...
...riding my bike on the sidewalks of Harvard Square the other day, speeding to yet another appointment--maybe a class or a meeting or a rehearsal. Who knows? It was something I was late for. I was weaving in and out of pedestrians and passers-by--nothing hazardous or anything, just trying to get through without being forced onto the autobahn that is Mass. Ave., while avoiding the possibility of getting flattened by a tour bus full of inquisitive grandmothers from Coral Gables...
...Late in the second period, Shewchuk scored the 100th goal of her career. After a Francisco shot, everyone on the ice except Shewchuk lost sight of the puck. Catching Brewer off-guard, she drove the shot into the open far side...