Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial capital, the currency has gained in popularity with a certain class of entrepreneurs: stickup men, who are carrying cruzeiros away in record amounts. Bank offices in Sāo Paulo have been held up more than 700 times so far this year, nearly double the 1982 pace. Though bankers are reluctant to disclose their losses, one government estimate puts the 1983 haul at about $6 million...
...composer's life, naturally recalls a similar religious epic, Parsifal. Like Wagner's valedictory, Saint François is a spacious work of musical architecture, a cathedral in sound that generates a sense of timelessness or, more precisely, of time suspended. It unfolds at a stately pace, illustrating episodes from the life of the saint (the preaching to the birds, the visitation by an angel, the receiving of the stigmata), animated by the whole range of Messiaen's musical vocabulary. Strong, sharply defined motifs are derived from such disparate sources as bird song (the composer...
...other end Kathy Carroll garnered four assists to tie a Harvard single-game record to pace a strong offensive attack...
Likewise, deterrence, to which Eban sees no other alternative of comparable effectiveness, has solidified over four decades through snail's pace progress. Observers criticizing achievements such as test ban treaties and miniscule reductions of warheads because of the distance still remaining towards the goal of a nuclear-free world overlook, in Eban's eyes, the positive aspect of any prize on this most difficult issue. He writes, "The task of statesmen is to understand what is real and concrete in the international environment and to seek the maximal chance of peace within that context...
...pace never lags, supported by Richard A. Shore's brisk musical direction and David Reiffel's sophisticated, rapid-fire blocking. After 19 successive dousings in intense musical emotion, the audience probably couldn't manage more than the hour the show occupies. Marry Mc A Little isn't cathartic, and it doesn't leave the satisfying sense that Sondheim has worked out the problems of love; then again, no one would really expect him to. Instead, his insights are left vacue enough and universal enough to roll anybody up, and that makes the show as good...