Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballet section, in particular, suffers from excessive talk, despite rare footage of the legendary Isadora Duncan and a brief clip of Rudolf Nuryev dancing with Margot Fonteyn. Presumably this is because ballet requires more explanation for today's audiences...
...course, the ART's version ofEndgame will not single-handedly banish the original to rare manuscript archives. Yet Brustein is wrong to say, as he has, that the original of a play exists only in the manuscript. It also exists in the general kind of staging which made the play a classic: sometimes it is preserved on celluloid, other times it becomes a Platonic form of a performance of that play. With Endgame, it is a timeless, barren interior of grey lighting. That aspect of the play could be 'lost' if it became popularly believed that Beckett's Endgame should...
...chief of staff thus faces both a severe challenge and a rare opportunity as Don Regan moves to the White House, probably in five weeks. With the most influential aides gone, he can freely choose his own team. Never shy about exerting power, he did so last week even before it was formally his. Sitting in on a White House staff meeting, he left some Baker aides with the impression that if any of them had any other job opportunities, now was the time to act on them. If there had been any doubts about whether Regan would take charge...
...Soviets sent just 20. And while an avalanche of advance stories in U.S. media built up hopes for a breakthrough, Moscow's Pravda noted the start of the talks in a terse, dry item on page 4. The agreement, however, became major Soviet news. Pravda even carried a rare photo, of Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...calamity to relate to you. The four of us spent the last week in a special organic chemistry research center out of town, studying day and night for your course. Our labors were enhanced, of course, by the unique organic chemistry resources the center features, which offered us a rare and enriching supplementary perspective to the stimulating coursework you had to offer...