Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wore himself out in 63 years, but he never wears down biographer David Thomson, and despite a length more appropriate to the life of a world leader than that of a relatively minor -- though never inconspicuous -- movie producer, Thomson's book never wears down the reader either. Partly that's because Thomson is a writer of rare grace as well as a shrewd, knowledgeable and critically astute observer of high Hollywood's golden years. Partly it is because, despite many exasperating sins and shortcomings, David O. Selznick was a curiously likable...
...changing ensemble of players from the New York Philharmonic with talented younger musicians in a common pursuit of polished eclecticism. These six concertos, for diverse combinations of instruments, are utterly distinctive and absorbing. Favorite Favorites: the exuberant Concerto in C Major and the poignant Largo in the G Minor...
Most of the professionals represented here will be familiar names to museumgoers. On the other hand, the outsiders are mostly unknown or recognizable by name only. A few, like the visionary landscapist Joseph Yoakum (1886- or 1888-1972), have risen to minor fame through the admiration of other artists -- in his case, again, via Nutt and his friends in the Hairy Who group in Chicago in the '60s. Others are better known in Europe than in the U.S. These include Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930), the near illiterate peasant schizophrenic whose stupendously complex drawings of imaginary terrains, buildings and cities, infinite...
Petty? Probably. My obstacles were minor and temporary. But they hurt nonetheless. I got ignored, bumped and chastised. I had to wait in line. If you're not loud here, you might end up waiting in line forever. Polite, quiet communication only gets...
Heavy rains and wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour hit Harvard yesterday as storms swept across the Eastern Seaboard, causing minor damage to one University building and inconveniencing people all over campus...