Word: luster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world's finest classical company. Running a ballet troupe is a tricky business. In addition to day-to- day operations, fund raising and the ceaseless development of talent, a director must have artistic impact on the world of the arts, or the troupe's name will lose its luster. Martins' Beauty cuts like a stiff breeze through increasingly remote traditions. No major company has managed such a rigorous rethinking of a full-length work in more than a decade...
...largest regret at Harvard is that we did not treat younger people in the History Department as well as they ought to have been treated," Donald says. "A number should have been promoted, which would have added great strength and luster to the department...
...eight years, bass player Larry Klein -- have some jazz background. They know, as Mitchell puts it, "how to see around corners." They can lend her delicate rhythms a strong foundation without blowing them away. Mitchell's own prominent acoustic guitar gives the whole album a kind of casual, offhand luster. "Initially, I was taken for a folk singer," Mitchell reflects. "Then folk singing was out of vogue and folk rock was in. Then for a while I was considered to be a country musician. My music ((now)) is not jazz. I'm a bit of an explorer...
Here is the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, diligently trying to add greater luster and further lucre to the music biz by modernizing the Grammy Awards and trying to slip them into some semblance of synch with contemporary taste. It took NARAS until 1979 to give rock its own category, but lately it has cooked up a slot for everything from...
...opportunity like this is too good to pass up, and you can hardly blame a generation of black civic leaders for succumbing. New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Democratic national chairman Ron Brown are among many who have made or enhanced their fortunes by lending minority luster to broadcast deals. You almost suspect a Republican plot here, since the G.O.P. -- rhetorically the scourge of reverse-discrimination policies -- has never made an issue of this one. The Republican-dominated FCC and Supreme Court have both endorsed...