Word: modicums
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...formerly nonmusical Roundabout is also the aegis for A Grand Night for Singing, which opens this week. In its original incarnation as a black-tie cabaret act at New York City's Rainbow & Stars, it was pleasant, often witty and inventive, but slight. Adding a modicum of costumes and choreography can go only so far in making it fill a bigger stage. "Maybe the number of revivals this season is just a coincidence," says Haimes, "but I hope it's a harking back to the virtues of musicals in their heyday." Worryingly for that hope, She Loves Me is showing...
...copycat factor. Blundering though they were, the World Trade Center bombers still hit what for terrorists is the jackpot: headlines. Big, bold, worldwide headlines, which might well tempt other groups to think they could achieve the same results, call attention to their cause -- and, if they operated with a modicum more intelligence than those bombers, even escape uncaught...
...disease caused by the cruel depredations of an outlaw regime possibly welcome back the architects of such madness? It is one of the saddest ironies in Cambodia today that the Khmer Rouge, whose reign of terror lasted from 1975 to 1979, have clawed their way back to a modicum of power. As the country's first democratic balloting in three decades begins this week, the party threatening to wreck the election is none other than the Khmer Rouge. Hope that the vote might usher in peace, along with a constitution and new government, has given way to fear that...
...increased from a handful to about 20 per house. I know that Harvard students are given to melodramatic exaggeration of their neuroses, but retaining one full time resident tutor for every 20 students is excessive. One could make the case that resident tutors keep the peace and insure a modicum of discipline. But considering Harvard's dormant social scene, such a task could not keep more than one nights per week. Indeed, the place where I seem to run into tutors the most is on the keg line at parties...
...more widespread than even romantics imagined. Those who argue that love is a cultural fantasy have tended to do so from a Eurocentric and class-driven point of view. Romance, they say, arose thanks to amenities peculiar to the West: leisure time, a modicum of creature comforts, a certain level of refinement in the arts and letters. When these trappings are absent, so is romance. Peasants mated; aristocrats fell in love...