Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old ban, never enforced, against nuclear-armed naval vessels' visiting Danish ports. Strict observation of that prohibition would severely hamper the operations of NATO warships in Denmark's waters. Implicitly, the Prime Minister was raising a key question: How far can a small country go in assuming lesser risks and obligations than its partners in a military alliance...
...neck to produce a state of near suffocation, called sexual asphyxia, that is said to heighten erotic pleasure. In his excitement, he said, he pulled too hard. Nassau County Prosecutor Kenneth Littman derided the new story as the "oops defense." But the jury found Porto guilty on only the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide, a crime punishable by no more than four years in prison...
...extraordinary. Last week Nunn became unique: he opened a fourth. Chess, which links a Soviet-U.S. summit, a world chess championship and a doomed international romance, has already racked up advance sales of $4 million. If it overcomes bumpy reviews -- which also beset Starlight and, to a lesser degree, Cats -- Nunn will parallel what he has achieved in London, where the same four shows have been running for years...
...this show vividly proves, Gauguin was an artist of extraordinary powers long before he sailed to the South Seas from Marseilles in 1891. By then, most of the basic obsessions of his work were in place: he had already "found himself" in Brittany, presiding over a small colony of lesser artists like Maurice Denis and Jacob Meyer de Haan, amid the ritual dolmens and the stolid squinting peasants -- an exotic tribe with its own language and religious customs, an enclave that seemed closer to the earth than the rest of France...
Schickele maintains that no form is too sacred to be parodied. Schickele--er, P.D.Q. Bach--pokes fun at operatic, symphonic and vocal as well as lesser known musical forms, such as the art of performing on dried manicotti ("Four Folksong Upsettings"). Yet he counters that he is "not into a Lenny Bruce kind of humor." He claims he is not out "merely to shock or offend." Says Schickele, "I want my concerts to be friendly and melodious affairs...