Word: minore
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...scene takes place at the largest U.S. regional theater and one of the oldest (founded in 1935), a three-stage jamboree built on Bardolatry that draws 370,000 spectators a year, 90% from more than 125 miles away. With minor variations this scene also takes place in Boulder, Colorado; Cedar City, Utah; San Diego; Houston; Dallas; Orlando, Florida; an inner-city park in Louisville, Kentucky; the grounds of a legendary mansion alongside the Hudson River; New York City's Central Park; and dozens of other locales. According to Felicia Londre, secretary of the Shakespeare Theater Association of America...
This spring, in a move that caused a minor political explosion the council's CCA majority voted not to rehire City Clerk Joseph E. Connarton. At the time, Connarton supporters labeled the progressive councillors' move a "partisan...
...erupted in the rear of the L-1011 jumbo jet as it was about to lift off for San Francisco with 292 aboard. The pilot aborted the takeoff, the plane crashed through a runway barrier and the crew chuted out the passengers with expert precision; 55 people suffered minor injuries. Other air travelers were not so lucky. A Thai jetliner carrying 113 people reportedly slammed into a Himalayan mountainside as it approached Katmandu, Nepal; all are feared dead. In Nanjing, China, at least 100 died in a takeoff crash...
...where another dominant Dream Team was on display, the responses were almost identical. "Our objective has been to keep them within a 45-point range," said the coach of the Angolan basketball team, Victorino Cunha, after playing the U.S. True, he had lost by 68, but that seemed a minor victory after being 48 points down at halftime. "For us," said an Angolan, "it's good to lose by 60 points...
...every gesture, that he was interested only in the good of the country. The most probable explanation for Perot's reversal is simpler: he couldn't take the heat. Politics is perhaps the only professional game amateurs truly believe they can win. "Even professionals who've been in the minor leagues all their lives don't really appreciate what awaits them at the presidential level," says Michael Dukakis, who has more than a nodding acquaintance with the majors. As a nonprofessional, Perot recoiled when reality intruded, a petulant autocrat who apparently expected a grateful nation to crown him without dissent...