Word: rarer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Underacting--a much rarer, although equally unsatisfying, fault as overacting--undercuts the potential energy of this production. Lithgow, whose impressive performances in Three Sisters and The Foreigner prove him to be talented, wears a blank expression for much of the play which is only interrupted in instances of rage or assault...
Nowadays opera audiences are finding healthy voices rarer. It may be that young singers are expanding into heavy but popular roles without the kind of seasoning that the small repertory opera house used to provide. A rested voice is lustrous and secure. A frayed voice has loopholes, swoops or worse...
China is only beginning to discover the downside of the sexual revolution. AIDS infections, though still much rarer than in the U.S., are spreading rapidly, as are other sexually transmitted diseases. Along with promiscuity, prostitution is on the increase. By pretending such problems do not exist, the government perpetuates misinformation and ignorance. Liu hopes his study, which will be published in book form next year, will help give the Chinese people the information they need to make sex safer and even more pleasurable...