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...agilely soars through florid lines and shows great stamina in a work that demands her presence onstage almost constantly. Frank Ragsdale as her lover Alfredo possesses a lyric tenor voice that fills the hall effortlessly even in his quietest moments. They blend almost instinctively in their duets...

Author: By Jefferson Packer, | Title: Magnum Opera Stops the Show | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...dumb" movie Born Free. In one variation, his bored wife (two-time Tony Award winner Christine Baranski) chucks him out. In another, she commits suicide by leaping off the tacky flat's tiny balcony. In a third, their children join her in denouncing him. In the last -- the quietest, most real and yet, one feels, the most tragic -- he settles down at the table to eat yet another loathed diet meal of water-packed tuna as his wife sits opposite, each stuck in the nightly silence of despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fearlessly Offbeat | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...course. But look, gang members are among the quietest people you will ever meet. You know, gangs are like families. Little kids get disciplined in gangs. When a little kid drifts into a gang, he doesn't just get a gun thrust into his hands. He's gonna get homeboy love, which is pretty potent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEON BING: In The Brutal World of L.A.'s Toughest Gangs | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Alan: It advises you to make sure you have absolute privacy for up to eight hours. Friday or Saturday night is usually the quietest time. They don't want you to be discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: ETHEL ADELMAN | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

SETI probes focus on microwave frequencies ("the quietest radio band in nature everywhere," according to Arnold) and seek out narrow band emissions that the scientists believe may have been artificially produced. As Arnold sees it, these signals could be anything from "leakage from a radio transmitter, which simply tells us that at one point there was a culture that used radar... to full-blown wide and band universal television...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: TUNING IN TO THE UNIVERSE | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

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