Word: minoring
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...Greeks get the blues. And they have the music to match the mood: rembetika. A mix of Western and Eastern influences, rembetika first emerged from the bars and cafés of 1920s Piraeus, Athens' ancient port and onetime home to refugees from Turkey and other parts of Asia Minor. The style - with its gravel-voiced singers and the metallic twang of the bouzouki, a kind of Greek lute - became the sound of the urban underclass, with sharp, poignant lyrics about prison life, drugs and, during the military dictatorship of the 1960s and '70s, politics. Fans show their appreciation...
...while Clapp, 31, is a popular minor-league player in Syracuse and the other smaller American cities where he has toiled in his nine-year career, in Canada he's just a guy with an unusual name. "I haven't spent much time there," he says. "Canadians don't recognize my face...
...press still instantly mobbed her—could this be The Story of the news-less convention?—and made enough noise to cause a minor commotion. Spontaneity at the DNC is that hard to find...
...intruder in seeming defiance. A balancing hand placed carelessly into the spinifex needles is rewarded with a dozen tiny dots of blood; peripheral vision catches the thick brown tail of a snake gliding face-high a meter away. This is not the place to suffer even a minor injury...
...more successful as a barometer of the growing political bent of theater these days than as an evening?s entertainment. Though Sondheim has added six new songs for Lane?s expanded version (mostly filler, including a love song that Dionysos sings to his dead wife Ariadne), this is minor Sondheim - and even minor Nathan Lane. He?s as commanding as ever on stage, with a voice that can rally a herd of elephants, but seems oddly muted here, perhaps to suit his sober theme. The cast around him works hard, including pros like Roger Bart (who replaced Saturday Night Live...