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...personal level, we have developed a relationship with Herb and Sue and in the end that meant more than pure economics," Palandjian said...
...course, none of us needs grapes at all. Grapes are nearly pure sugar, with far less vitamin C than an orange, and lacking the potassium of a banana or the dietary fiber of an apple. Don't get me wrong, grapes taste great. But there are plenty of other things that taste great that we don't have in the dining halls. (Chocolate bars come to mind.) And if you're such a big fan that you can't wait to make it home for the holidays where (presumably) a juicy bowl of your favorite fruit awaits your arrival...
...says about his character but also because it could have made him vulnerable to blackmail. Hersh suggests that it did, but never produces convincing proof. Why did Kennedy name Johnson as his running mate, despite Robert Kennedy's distaste for Johnson? Many historians have concluded that it was pure political calculation: Johnson could deliver Texas. Hersh thinks it was blackmail. He says that during a closed-door meeting with Kennedy, Johnson may have threatened to disclose J.F.K.'s dirty laundry, though Hersh doesn't know which laundry or even whether Johnson had anything on Kennedy at all. His main source...
...storytelling technique, though, is pure 20th century--1937, to be exact, when a young woman, surrounded by funny dwarfs, faced up to an evil sorcerer, cheated death and found her royal destiny. Snow White was a family film, but so were most movies, and it was a musical when perhaps a third of all films had songs. Now there's only a niche family market and virtually no other films are musicals, but the format is unaltered. That was then, and this is then...
...orchestra must have found it hard to follow. His trills were appealingly steady and even, and his left hand octaves (so often bangily overdone in Mozart) were gems of control--in this surpassing even Andreas Haefliger's performance in last year's Bank of Boston Celebrity Series. But beyond pure technique, his pedaling and phrase-shaping demonstrated a great ear. The orchestra adequately reinforced and developed all the musical ideas, but Park's was the artistic voice of authority...