Word: preciousness
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...something oceanic about the music of singer-songwriter Alana Davis, 23. Her enchanting debut album, Blame It on Me (Elektra), has a pacific calm to it, undulating with soft folk, light jazz and warm R. and B., and yet, beneath the serene surface, one senses a depth, a power, precious things hidden away like sunken treasure ships. In concert one gets more of a glimpse: Davis has a sensuous, sliding alto, young and vibrant, but infused with old, smoky blues. She is a major new talent...
...outpace myself; this is, after all, the Ivy League, where centuries of tradition prohibit adding one critical game to the schedule to allow for some of those precious playoff confusions. We have to content ourselves with the slightly less complicated, if no less prestigious, race for the League crown and bragging rights in the Ancient Eight...
What bothers Brody is that there is precious little scientific evidence to support the more ambitious claims being made for vitamins, and what evidence there is is often far from definitive. The quantity of vitamins that an adult or a child should consume depends on many factors, including age, sex and health condition. Making matters more complicated, nutrients tend to interact with one another. For example, vitamin C is supposed to act as an antioxidant, preventing damage to the cells. But that same vitamin, in the presence of iron, can act as a pro-oxidant, causing, rather than preventing, cellular...
...rise to a higher level, the show has its winning moments. When Ally counsels an obese man about romance, the scenes are touching and amusing too. As such scenes accumulate, a viewer senses that, as with thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, two shows that could also be precious and manipulative and that had similar attitudes and characters, there may be stages to go through: disgust, annoyance, grudging tolerance, enjoyment accompanied by self-loathing, actual enjoyment. Right now, the pain-pleasure ratio of watching Ally McBeal is tilted in the wrong direction, but it's shifting...
...been drastically cut. Whether we like it or not, two-thirds of women with children under six work outside the home. What an odd society it is that requires more training and licensing of the person who cuts your hair than the person to whom you entrust your most precious possession...