Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That he can stand without crutches today is a minor miracle because, at 53, James L. Brooks has endured his harshest professional challenge. Last August, after three years of work, he had the first test screening of I'll Do Anything, his Hollywood father-daughter story with musical numbers written by Prince, Carole King and Sinead O'Connor and with choreography by Twyla Tharp. It's tough enough under the best of circumstances for the fretful filmmaker to let go of his babies and present them to audiences. But this time Brooks saw his anxiety justified. Audience response was calamitous...
...worthwhile to remember that such art -- which, mutatis mutandis, has also been the formal state style of Hitler, Mao Zedong and not a few minor figures including Saddam Hussein -- has meant more to more people in the past 60 years than all the sanctified Modernist styles, from Fauvism to Pop, rolled together. Like Modernism's, its roots lay in the 19th century. If Modernism grew from Manet, Monet and Cezanne, Socialist Realism emerged from their conservative opposition -- the academic and narrative work that was the institutional art of Europe a century ago. In Russia the hugely popular landscapes and genre...
...streakers were seriously injured by thesnowballs, according to streaker Rosanna F. Gomez'96. A few suffered minor bruises...
Harvard is pleased that it has finally launched the powerful defensive and rebounding elements its game lacked--a problem that placed the team eighth in the Ancient Eight in scoring defense. Honing the team's shooting skills is a minor feat in comparison...
...major league knuckleballer Phil Niekro who won 300 games in the bigs, has a proper sense of just what's at stake. He told the Sentinel: "I think it's time that everyone saw what females could do if given the chance to compete in professional baseball at the minor league or major league level...