Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...received complaints that customers were hanging around the store, blocking pedestrian and vehicular traffic," he said. "We need them to keep patrons inside rather than outdoors...
Figaro was chosen to inaugurate the building because it was the opening opera in 1934. Then as now, the festival emphasizes Mozart and, in general, ensemble works. Glyndebourne has more arresting and ambitious productions in its warehouse. But if the Figaro sets were pedestrian, the cast lived up to the company's formidable reputation for ensemble excellence (though there were standouts, notably Hagley and Marie-Ange Todorovitch, as Cherubino). Poor Renee Fleming, as the Countess, was stuck with the staging's only coarse moments. Somehow director Stephen Medcalf thought to dramatize the lady's unhappiness by portraying...
...Keep your rosaries off my ovaries." So read one of the many buttons I spied on the backpack of a passing pedestrian. The button was surrounded by others, many of which supported a women's right to Cohoes an abortion (although they used more interesting phraseology...
...combined commotion caused by both projectswill mean extra work controlling traffic in theYard. Some pedestrian routes will be shifted toaccommodate construction, Leviton said, andcontractors will be encouraged not to park theirtrucks in crowded areas...
...Moreau's appeal. A lot of it has to do with her unique voice, husky, slightly raspy, but nevertheless smooth, like honey shot through with smoke. To hear that voice speaking French is something of a revelation. Even in claptrap like "La Femme Nikita," her distinctive voice elevated the pedestrian dialogue about a woman's beauty to the realm of poetry. Her voice cracks words open to reveal their intrinsic poetry and beauty, and when she sings, she is dangerously enchanging. Is it any wonder that Jim, Jules and Albert find her irresistible...