Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind face," he says. "Little did they know I wanted their money, not their love." To Grant's dismay, Maurice pegged him for dramas, and he wound up in a variety of serious Eurofilms including Merchant-Ivory's Remains of the Day. "If they would only give me something lighter," he recalls saying to himself, "I'd be better." Finally, Grant's amusing performance in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon brought him to the attention of Four Weddings director Mike Newell and led to his screen break in a real comedy...
Singing, instead of speaking, about emotions and situations actually better conveyed the intended mood of this piece. The consistently frivolous chorus, played with great flamboyance, brings the lighter mood back into play. Everyone succeeds in putting great fun into the flouncy pop score by Stephen Sondheim. His lyrics and expression are what the hardcore thespian would disparagingly lable witty; they nevertheless succeed in drawing the players up from their dramatic doldrums. But while de Lima and Upton stand out with rich, impressive voices, several other performances are inconsistent with their standard, preventing the music from carrying the production...
...council cannot force Walsh to resign, butit can issue a resolution calling for him to stepdown. Such a resolution by Walsh's colleaguescould affect the decision of the sentencing judgeand hurt his chances for a lighter sentence...
...initial indictment in the case namedseveral people who worked for Walsh, but many ofthem testified against their former boss inexchange for lighter sentences...
...used for both recreation and travel. They invented electric batteries and mastered electroplating, discovered the principles of quantum mechanics and anticipated Darwin's theories of evolution. Furthermore, all Egyptians were black, and their abundance of the dark skin pigment, melanin, not only made them more humane and superior to lighter-skinned people in body and mind but also provided such paranormal powers as ESP and psychokinesis...