Word: shadowed
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...Serenade” graced the stage first. Pairing this ballet—Balanchine’s first choreography in America—with “La Sylphide” seemed like an odd choice: “Serenade” is mostly plot-less, containing only the shadow of a heartbreak story that would link it to the themes of “La Sylphide...
...could afford to allow himself a small touch of levity. Having come to power in 2002 under the shadow of his predecessor Jiang Zemin, by the end of the Party Congress Hu had largely cemented his leadership for the next five years. He had engineered the departure from the Politburo of Zeng Qinghong, a Jiang ally who wielded enormous influence in the party. He had also stage-managed the promotion of several protégés to senior positions in the party's highest councils. And Hu had even managed to have his concept of "scientific development" - a catchphrase...
...that is no matter how afraid you are, you can still maintain goal-oriented behavior.” But the chance to change history was not the only reason that motivated the Little Rock Nine. Jefferson Thomas said that he simply wanted to escape his older siblings’ shadow. “I have seven older siblings who were in all black education systems,” he said. “I did not know that all this would come just because I changed schools.” Boston City Councillor Sam Yoon and Cambridge City Councillor Brian...
...This is no mall by traditional classification, but a Russian creation altogether: marble flooring, Doric columns, price-gouge cafes, scores of niche Italian luxury brands - and almost no customers. Holyfield engaged in several rounds of shadow boxing in a ring erected awkwardly between the silks and crystal. Cameras shuttered away as the sparse Russian crowd ogled the man best known internationally for the Mike Tyson-made chunk that's still missing from the rim of his right ear. After Holyfield came Ibragimov, a champion whose humility bleeds into a bashfulness that sees him shy away from the cameras, even though...
...pavement. Police and soldiers armed with automatic weapons sit on stools outside the mostly silent monasteries. More are stationed at the entrance of the hilltop temple, the spiritual center of Burmese Buddhism. As many as a thousand monks lived and studied at these small monasteries in the shadow of Shwedagon. But troops now far outnumber the handful of monks that are still seen at Shwedagon and the downtown Sule pagoda, another focal point of the pro-democracy protests...