Word: louds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today Shultz sees Reagan alone several times a week, for up to an hour at a stretch, frequently without any agenda. The Secretary sounds out Reagan on all manner of foreign questions and mulls over a variety of policy options, "thinking out loud with the President," as one Shultz aide puts it. Shultz's own self-effacing description, in an interview with TIME last week: "I try to give him my best advice and recommendations . . . but the President gives the leadership, and we try to work together on it. I will claim only to have been involved." Only once...
...first check all your personal belongings, including jewlery, scarves, gloves and everything in your pockets, into a locker in Concord's lobby. Then you walk into the "trap," where a wide metal door rolls open and shuts again with a loud, ominous clang. You take off your jacket and shoes and give them to a guard to inspect. After walking through a metal detector, you are patted down by the guard--who even checks your mouth. Then you put your shoes back on and wait for a steel-barred door to wheel open...
...good news is the eponymous Del Amitri (Chrysalis). At first glance, these four Scotsman would seem to fit in with the U2 Alarm mode of loud banal political folk songs. This debut effort abounds with youthful metaphors about pollution and nuclear war and all the things that are so gosh--wrong with this world. Most of the time these societal barbs are more embarassing than effective. All of this only goes to prove that it takes time to learn how to write lyrics. Fortunately, the ultimate success of Del Amitri does not depend on its words but rather its presentation...
IDEALLY, GILBERT AND SULLIVAN plays should be gala affairs, lively and entertaining. Fair maidens and young gents dance on stage, singing quick-paced songs and sporting loud costumes. But The Sorceror, one of the duo's less known musicals, just doesn't live up to this expectation as presented by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players at Agassiz Theatre...
...lackadaisical performance by the orchestra further weighed down this play that could not get off the ground. Many of the musicians played neither smoothly nor even completely seriously. They were loud without being vigorous--and, as in the case of the actors on stage, the failure was not with individual performances, but with the musical direction...