Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the soloists must project over the orchestra on their own as well as keeping key. Phyllis, the sheperdess played by Julia Chou, sings with confidence and precision. Timothy Griffiths in his tongue-twisting patter solos as the Lord Chancellor and Marcia Turner as Iolanthe pleading for her son's cause also give noteworthy performances. Yet some of the other characters seem less at ease. Jonathan Schwartz as Lord Tollolier cannot be understood very well over the orchestra. The voice of the Queen of the Fairies, portrayed by Emmy Brown, falters on the high notes and tends to drop...
...your dreams realized," she says, "doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be content." The hurt and the hope are evident in her new album's last cut, Shadow of Doubt, in which Raitt sounds like a Mississippi field hand, bent by age and travail: "Oh but Lord no/ Don't make it easy/ Keep me workin'/ 'Til I work it on out/ Just please, please/ Shine enough light on me/ 'Til I'm free from/ This shadow of doubt...
...single, essential difference separates human beings from other animals," then go on to refer to man's capacity to use fire, laugh (you might have also mentioned cry) and reason as "any one of a dozen other appealing oversimplifications." You call these oversimplifications? Good Lord! These entirely human capacities not only constitute essential differences between us and the animals but are crucial to understanding the uniquely human predicament. We are, as Shakespeare said, the "paragon of animals" precisely because we possess the capability of using language, creating mathematical concepts, writing music and, above all, perceiving our own immortality...
...case in point is British historian Hugh Thomas. With Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico (Simon and Schuster; 812 pages; $30), Lord Thomas, author of what is arguably the finest study in English of the Spanish Civil War, has taken the heady risk of challenging a landmark of 19th century American historiography: William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). Thomas' account is richer in detail than Prescott's, more balanced in its assessment of the Mexica (pronounced mesheeca; the author insists that this is a more authentic name for the conquered people than...
...Lewis' love interest in "Shadowlands," or Meryl Streep as Karen von Blixen in "Out of Africa." The same principle holds true in light romance, from Meg Ryan's idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic Sally of "Harry Met Sally" to Katherine Hepburn's fiery and yet vulnerable Tracey Lord opposite Cary Grant in "The Philadelphia Story...