Word: modestly
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...long stretch during her formative grade school years, the family belonged to what she describes as the "very strict" Apostolic Church. As a member, says Braxton, she had to wear long dresses, hats and other modest garb, something that made her stand out, uncomfortably, among her schoolmates. Also setting her apart was the fact that she wasn't allowed to listen to the type of secular music that she now specializes in. But as she neared the end of high school, her father loosened up the rules--and Braxton bought her first pair of pants. "They were Levi...
Philadelphia's goals are more modest. The city expects 500,000 aesthetes to spend some $60 million while they admire The Large Bathers and other works during the show's three-month run. Local businesses see the show as a portrait of potential customers. Financial-services company Advanta underwrote the show, and 15 hotels are offering package deals that include VIP admission to the exhibit. In a broad bow to popular culture, Sandra Horrocks, the Philadelphia Museum of Art's vice president for marketing, will throw out the first pitch when the hometown Phillies play host to the Florida Marlins...
Emmerich, 40, the conductor of ID4's wild ride, is a can-do scholar of Hollywood moviemaking; he has built a reputation for efficient melodramas on modest budgets. (For all its locations and effects and the mandatory cast of thousands, ID4 reportedly cost a thrifty $71 million.) Emmerich first fell under the spell of science fiction as a boy watching U.S. films as well as local sci-fi TV shows in his native Germany. "For me," he says, "going on a science-fiction movie set is like visiting toyland. You see, my brother trashed all my toys when...
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...sites were also built on a fairly modest scale: the Great Pyramid at La Venta, a site that arose around 800 B.C., is just 100 ft. high, about half the size of the tallest Mayan pyramid at Chichen Itza. Still, each Olmec site was laid out according to a preconceived plan, a fact that reflects both the people's religious beliefs and a fairly sophisticated knowledge of engineering. All the mounds at La Venta, for example, are oriented precisely 8û west of north...