Word: minor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to keep reminding ourselves that today's economic euphoria tends to anesthetize any trace of yesterday's lugubriousness. Also, vice verse. Certain kinds of institutions, however--and especially universities--cannot exist or thrive if they allow themselves to ride too closely the ups and downs of every minor or major boom or bust...
...Second World War, simultaneously issues a warning to complacent audiences. He maintains that fascist ideas may take root just as easily in post-1945 democracies, born out of modern-day attitudes, traumas and decadence no different from those which Franz Biberkopf faced in 1920s Germany. Despite the minor flaws and over-exuberances of his technique, Fassbinder succeeds in encapsulating the attitudes and psychologies of the Weimar Republic in the life of a single common man. Reaching even greater brilliance, he then turns this depiction outward again, as his metaphors for the inevitable injury of loved ones resound with a universal...
...Always Get What You Want," with songs from their new album Bridges to Babylon, including "Flip the Switch," Anybody Seen My Baby" and "Out of Control." The set list had a remarkable flow to it, facilitated by the rock solid and almost unwavering style of the music. Only extremely minor differences existed between songs that spanned thirty years...
...interchangeable cogs in a state machine; Voros's more personal characterization of Banquo is what makes the character so much missed. Andres Ramos-Nolasco '99 plays a rather flat Duncan, and Noah Feinstein '99 appears at the end as a swashbuckling, hyperemotional Macduff. Becca Lowenhaupt '99, who plays several minor roles, makes a remarkable impact in her scene as the drunken, half-asleep Porter called upon to open Macbeth's gate for a pair of messengers. Her brash physical comedy is as effective here as it was in her role as Bottom in last spring's A Midsummer Night...
...this country, [the prize] tends to be treated as creating a few more very minor celebrities," rather than sending a message about the importance of science, literature and peace, he said...