Word: raring
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...thrives under something rare in the classical music world--a long-reigning conductor. In his 26th year as music director, Seiji Ozawa is currently the world's longest serving conductor of any major orchestra. With Ozawa at its helm, the BSO attains a balance that might seem impossible for other contemporary symphonies--a balance between high sales in tickets and high quality in programming. The process of choosing a repertoire can be as political as it is musical, an inimical intersection between the vision of a governing board concerned with fund raising and a conductor concerned with musical integrity...
What is most appealing about Richman's music, aside from general excellence, is its unironic appreciation of life, rare in today's hipper-than-thou culture. Richman is never less than totally honest and earnest and although he is aware of this and its effects, he is never putting on an act; he's just being Jonathan. This was very apparent when he played to a packed downstairs at the Middle East on Nov. 2. With just his guitar and drummer Tommy Larkins, Richman played one of the most entertaining and energetic live shows I've seen in a very...
Life is Beautiful is a truly rare and unexpected creation: a comedy about the Holocaust. One of several miracles that writer, director, and actor Roberto Benigni performs in this film is to convince the audience that this is not a contradiction in terms. Benigni believes in his film's title, and it is this optimism which makes the movie's unlikely concept work. This celebration of the imagination in the face of so much reality--not just in the movie's plot but in its whole visual and emotional style--is a brave choice that will make this film...
Could the blame also partially lie with age restrictions on drinking? In other cultures where alcohol is regularly part of meals, incidents like this are likely extremely rare occurrences. Age restrictions on drinking lead to a mystique that may lead people, especially those underage, to binge-drink whenever they have the opportunity...
...They [the requests] are very rare--two orthree a year perhaps--and in the three plus yearsthat I have been Dean, I don't remember a requestcoming from anywhere other than HUPD [HarvardUniversity Police Department], and then only whenit has been investigating a crime," Lewis wrote...