Word: nascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN I FIRST SAW VOLCANO SUNS three years ago, they were a nascent three-piece outfit featuring drummer Peter Prescott, formerly of Mission of Burma. At the time, they were playing with the wretched Ben Vaughan Combo, opening up for a Violent Femmes show. The trio's songs were rough, half-improvised ditties with common foods like popcorn and margarine being the typical subject matter. It's no wonder I did not think much of them...
Radcliffe might play a role in the development of a women's studies concentration and in luring of professors to the University. For instance, Radcliffe might link its Murray Research Center, its Schlesinger Library, and its Bunting Institute into the nascent Harvard department--perhaps sacrificing some control over these institutions in return for some say in the concentration...
...period sustains it in spite of the miscasting of Bonham Carter as Lucy, giving a performance all too reminiscent of an earlier role as the title character in Lady Jane. Perhaps the two characters are similar in personality, but it would seem more likely that Bonham Carter's nascent acting skills require broadening...
...revered, almost legendary figure, esteemed both for the brilliance of his productions and for his odds-defying, inspirational leadership, but to most of the theatergoing public he is unknown. He chose, in the early stages of a promising career, to abandon commercial theater for the then nascent regional repertory movement. Says he: "I always hated the pickup quality of commercial theater, where the only permanent people were the managers and the accountants. I thought the theater should be built around the artists, and I always looked to find my sense of family there." In Providence, Hall gathered an ensemble whose...
Harrington's nascent campaign is expected to center on the criticizing of retiring Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti's laxness in prosecuting government corruption and organized crime...