Word: nan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotions that run through the core of James' story. We not only hear Miss Jessel verbally bemoaning her fate, but also the heavy constant tone of suffering in the music. Even more ambiguous feelings come through, such as the rather naive disbelief that characterizes the housekeeper Mrs Grose (Nan Hughes). Hughes portrays Mrs. Grose as a harried, trusting woman whose gentle nature cannot comprehend the horror that surrounds her. She is a striking example of the professionalism, both in singing and acting, that marks the entire cast of this opera...
Although it is too early to tell, the cuts "will probably not go through in their original form," said Nan F. Nixon,-Harvard's chief Capitol Hill lobbyist...
...these busy architects, who often compete against one another for seven-figure commissions, get together on tableware? Easily, say Nan Swid and Addie Powell. The two ebullient women, both former executives of Knoll International, invited nine architects to lunch at Manhattan's sumptuous Four Seasons restaurant in 1982. They presented a detailed plan for the line, but had so little capital that they could offer the architects no fees, only the promise of royalties. Says Swid, 42, whose husband Stephen is Knoll's cochairman...
...come. In a red-carpeted chamber of Peking's Great Hall of the People, the British Ambassador to China, Sir Richard Evans, sat at one end of a long table covered with a green-tasseled cloth. At the other end sat Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Nan. Behind them, the 50 or so officials from both countries, who had endured 22 rounds and 24 months of serpentine negotiation, stood stiffly at attention. Finally, the two men appended their initials to a series of documents, smiled, stood up and, a little clumsily, embraced each other. "This," said Sir Richard...
...division, senior skipper Andy Roberts and freshman crew Andy Ruff paced Harvard, while in the B division, skipper Cesar Brea and crow Nan conard...