Word: lessers
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...show that gathers its material from 50 years of Broadway revues is open to debates about what was left out. And since the Q. in Critic is for Quibble, here are a few. Berlin, with those six (terrific) songs, and Harold Rome, with three (lesser) ones, might be overrepresented in a show meant to be panoramic. The two sketches are amusing, and give the stars a chance to mewl and mug becomingly; but, from the same book (The Greatest Revue Sketches) that Viertel & Co. dipped into, I'd have chosen George S. Kaufman's brief, devastating "If Men Played Cards...
...both Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) and Collegeboxes, emphasized the company’s new “100% satisfaction guarantee,” a pledge to provide refunds to students who say they are dissatisfied with the service. HSA has endorsed the service.Last fall, Kirkland House resident Eric P. Lesser ’07 collected e-mail statements from more than 40 students who had stored their belongings with Collegeboxes over the summer. The e-mails cited problems ranging from lost futons to misplaced paperwork to delays in receiving insurance claim checks.Kirkland was particularly affected by those problems because...
...Texas Association Against Sexual Assault also voiced its concerns about "unintended consequences" of Jessica's Laws. The mandatory sentences can backfire, said TAASA spokeswoman Karen Amacher, as prosecutors lose the flexibility to seek lesser sentences in cases where a jury trial may prove too taxing for a child witness, or a jury or judge may not feel a 25-year sentence is warranted. Since an estimated 80% of child sexual assaults are committed by family members, groups like Amacher's are concerned that mandatory sentence laws, not to mention the death penalty, might dissuade certain people from reporting abuse...
...RadioX, operating out of Long Island at 94.7FM, 94.9FM, and 104.5FM, is run by former commercial radio DJs so dedicated to good programming that they have chosen to operate outside of the industry. Playing a mix of standard Top 40 hits and lesser known college radio fare, the pirate station is just as popular as any Clear Channel station on Long Island, consistently coming in the top five in Arbitron ratings...
...extent to which the performance transcends the act of imitation and becomes a form of artistic expression unto itself.” Though it is easy to spot “airness” when it is displayed, the quality is not at all easy to attain, and many lesser air guitarists have failed in their mission to achieve it.At that first competition, I witnessed an on-stage exorcism by a local champion known as the “Air Apostle.” In the face of his all-consuming “airness” I realized...