Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British Cheek by Jowl troupe, which returns this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music after a triumphant visit in October, is one such theatrical epiphany. It does more than revive the play; it revives one's faith in the theater as a place to weave magic...
Like Rankin, Harvard coach Frank Sullivan, a Lehigh assistant for 1977 to 1981, also has good memories of the Engineers. At Lehigh, Sullivan worked with Brian Hill, who is now the head coach of the Orlando Magic. The Engineers improved every year that Sullivan was there, and the 1980-1981 squad posted more victories than it had in 60 years...
...soft spots on the Garden parquet that Magic Johnson used to complain about are still around, but otherwise, basketball is a sport where tradition and leftovers from a past day pale in influence to what happens now. (Just ask the hapless C's.) And, the "now" is giving Harvard some quiet confidence...
President Clinton -- while pitching most of his remarks to domestic politics -- kicked off the 34-nation Summit of the Americas in Miami with a pitch for Western-hemisphere nations to join a giant free-trade zone by 2005. "This is a magic moment -- let us seize it," Clinton told an assembly of summit organizers and U.S. and foreign business leaders, stressing that the "partnership for prosperity" would create jobs at home. U.S. trade officials admit that such a trade zone is most valuable in U.S. political terms for the moment, since draft language doesn't call for final international negotiations...
...Bruch, for she is arguably the finest technician of her generation, but she remains inexplicably aloof from both of them. The Sibelius is a tepid performance at best-tempi cluster around a comfortable median, and the soul is left wanting, in spite of flawless execution. There is absolutely no magic from her first entrance in the Sibelius, and her tone simpers more than it captivates. During the most dramatic moments of the piece, one wonders whether she is capable of producing anything outside of the dynamic rangepiano to mezzo-forte-I often heard her bow biting into the string...