Word: minor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marius made Boston his home, becoming an ardent Red Sox fan. Lewis said he attended a baseball game with Marius every year, and was treated to stories of minor and major league baseball games that Marius had seen "40 or 50 years ago" in Tennessee...
...their dance music credentials come to the fore when the album finds its groove, as it does with the deep vocals of "Got to Find a Way." There's a too-much-of-the-sameness in the last few instrumental tracks, which seem indistinguishable, but that's a minor quibble compared to the quality of the rest of the album. If they're really Moving Cities, one can only hope they come to Cambridge...
...Well this morning, I walked around for 20 minutes. It's been ten years since I have graduated from college. I came upon a car accident, a minor one. I'm surprised how seriously they react here--there were five police cars and a fire engine...
...that serve as the "subjects" for each chapter are little more than jumping-off points for explorations of more general Biblical ideas. An excerpt from the book of Amos, for example, gives Kugel the opportunity to discuss the nature of the Biblical prophet, while the quotation itself receives only minor attention. And, while famous Psalm 137--"By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept"--allows Kugel to comment on exile as well as to question the traditional dating and translation of the poem, he fails to address why this particular psalm has achieved so much literary fame...
...obsequious, bumbling Ditto (Paul Kerry), the mayor's would-be right-hand man, and so on, and so on. Though there is some fine acting in the mix, none of these characters is on stage long enough to provide more than a suggestion of local color. Indeed, since these minor players never develop beyond mere "snapshots," one wonders if The Last Hurrah might have been better realized as a Broadway musical, Ragtime style...