Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pauline, flat-faced and brooding, while Winslet makes a high-strung Juliet, blonde and impulsive. Pauline's ubiquitous heavy awkwardness is less demanding than Juliet's rapid-fire swings from copious tears to maniacal happiness, but both Lynsky and Winslet manage to make their characters more than caricatures of polar emotion...
...last movement of the Sibelius has been described as a "Polonaise for polar bears," but those seeking robust playing should look elsewhere. Rather than the incessant, almost primitive drive of Heifetz or even Oistrakh, one finds a laid-back and almost casual interpretation here, with Midori deferring almost immediately. Is she willing to take on the orchestra in a head-to-head battle? Has she forgotten that the term concerto translates more or less as "a contest...
...There are essentially two issues [in determining ozone depletion]: the rapid change of aerosol loading, dictating the amount of surface area that is exposed, and the change in ultraviolet radiation," Anderson says. Regional and seasonal variations can lead to vast differences in ozone levels, he adds. "The polar regions are almost different planets...
Aboud said he is especially proud of the polar bear Rumple Minze ad on page 25 of the magazine. "We haven't seen it since back issues of National Lampoon and Playboy," he said
...characters she created by inhabiting them. This London-born actress's signature roles, as Blanche du Bois in the original 1947 production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and as Daisy Werthan in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy, were both mid-century Southern belles. They were also polar opposites: a woman plummeting from nymphomania into dementia; a lady struggling to balance propriety and humanity. For Streetcar she won the first of three Tonys (the others were for two collaborations with Cronyn, The Gin Game in 1978 and Foxfire in 1982); for Miss Daisy she earned an Oscar...