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...sense is that in the last year we'vemade some progress--modest progress," saidPresident Neil L. Rudenstine in an interviewyesterday...
...comedy alum who created the character and co-wrote the film, become the George Lucas of the '90s? Don't ask just now; the instant star is "having an out-of-body experience" relishing approval of a character he has played for more than 10 years. But he is modest about his achievement: "We just wrote something we thought was funny," he says, "and hoped the universe would accept...
Given this large amount of support the success of HAND is quite modest. It can boast of at most 200 regular volunteers compared to the more than 1500 volunteers at PBHA. I wonder how HAND would do without all the support from...
...Wilson still demonstrate their ability to exploit evocative possibilities in these short gems. The Canzonettas are fairly straightforward arrangements of strophic songs by an English poetess, accompanied by a setting of an excerpt from act II, scene 4 of Twelfth Night. Yet even if their tone is more modest than that of the cantata, their dramatic development is comparable. Haydn's delicate melody-lines are lovingly phrased by Watkinson, and Wilson audibly revels in the remarkably independent keyboard writing. The fortepiano passages contain moments of intense, near-pictorial portraiture, such as in the "Sailor's Song" and in "Fidelity," which...
...answer to that question is a resounding "absolutely" from fans and a resonant harrumph from keepers of the flame. Spectators in Albertville have been cheering for the newcomer sports, in part because several French competitors have been medalists or contenders. But elsewhere, TV viewers have been granted only modest exposure and minimal instruction. What they have been most likely to sense is an aura of novelty and rebellion...