Word: momentousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cornell has a series of ethnically exclusive dormitories, called "program houses"--one for blacks, one for Latinos and one for Native Americans, among others. Most students, and Cornell's previous president, Frank Rhodes, acknowledge that these houses, mostly on North Campus, Balkanize the campus by segregating students from the moment that they arrive...
When Meg and Babe have their first moments alone, Meg is able to draw out Babe's darkest secrets, down to the moment when she shot her husband Zachary. Taylor's Babe is mousy and quirky, perfectly genteel if false in her most controlled moments and hauntingly lucid in her moments of insanity. She makes the tale of shooting her husband sound as normal as going to the grocery--an effect which makes it only more disturbing, and more realistic. Babe's obsession with suicide makes her seem only marginally sane, yet the profound truths she uncovers in her wildest...
...this point, the most unexpected aspect of the entire album occurs: the CD changes from track one to track two without any delineation. "Anthropod" plays continuously, and at an indiscriminate moment, the four-minute quiet interlude becomes "Phantom Limb." There is no silence between songs, nor a change in melody. This is not an anomalous occurrence on the album, as the different tracks are just names given to indistinguishable parts of a single, seemingly interminable song that composes the whole of Experiment Below. Six minutes into the album, Hovercraft demonstrates promising innovations and intricate, sudden and powerful changes in rhythm...
After the intermission, Cunningham got her solo moment with Marais' Suite No. 4 in A minor for Viola da Gamba and Basso Continuo, prefacing her performance with a definition of what a viola da gamba is-a string instrument more closely related to the guitar than the violin and its ilk, despite its name and appearance--and a discussion of the "softer side" of baroque music, explaining that baroque music was played at a softer volume than music today is. She then proceeded to play the quietest piece in the program, with a rich and hazy sound which made...
Watching the second-grader fly across the rink was enough to give many of the hundreds of people who saw the show a moment's pause. One had to wonder whether Kelly O'Grady, talented as she may be, might have lacked, at the age of two, a deep interest in becoming a figure-skater. It was also hard not to imagine that had her parents been more interested in gymnastics, or classical music, we wouldn't instead be watching the young champion training for the Summer instead of the Winter Games, or fiddling away in Carnegie Hall...