Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number and a $500,000 reward for tips leading to the arrest of the "real killer." Potentially more damaging, the Los Angeles County coroner's office, pressured by media leaks, admitted that 16 pieces of evidence in the Simpson case had been mishandled. Though most of the errors were minor (a container of bile temporarily mislabeled as urine), the admission presented an opening for the defense to press its contention that every step of the investigation has been sloppy. And press it did. Shapiro filed a motion charging investigators with failing to pursue witnesses and physical evidence that might buttress...
...great Russian and German concerti--Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Brahms--Cliburn has always had a special affinity for solo piano works. His recording of Chopin have matched those of the late Artur Rubinstein and Claudio Arrau in popularity. Sunday's concert will feature Chopin's C-Sharp Minor Scherzo as well as pieces by Debussy and Szymanowski...
...audience of 14,000 that he felt unable to play the Rachmaninoff concerto, and so substituted a series of solo encores, including a Szymanowski etude, Liszt's arrangement of Schumann's song Widmung, Debussy's La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune and the Chopin C-sharp minor Scherzo. And then he was gone...
Diversity in minor roles: This is a minor disappointment, and one that many people may not notice. But Cameron's films are usually fairly good with having a diverse cast of characters in "minor" roles--i.e. making up the pastiche that forms that background and backbone of the picture. You know, the other spies, the fighter pilots, the hotel executives, etc, All too often, these roles are relegated automatically to white male actors, when they do not have...
...would-be musical I'll Do Anything, Barry Levinson with his behind- the-screen Jimmy Hollywood -- and what happens? A big nothing. The critics cluck; the public stays home in droves. One hates to see ambitious artists fail, even if their fizzles can be more provocative than the minor films that become major hits. But somehow these men became estranged from their audiences...