Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...However, brilliant dancing and choreography does shine through in several instances. Most notable were the two principal couples: the Snow Queen and King (Pollyana Ribeiro and Alex Lapshin) and the Sugerplum Fairy and Cavalier (Larissa Ponomerenko and Giuseppe Picone) in their grand pas de deux. Overall the corps de ballet performed well, although the snowflakes in Act I lacked the precision of the lovely Act II flowers...
...often sounds like a wedding singer gone bad, and it's hard to sit through his version of "Beat It" with a straight face. The romance of the Spanish lyrics might hold your interest through the first song or two, but then the '80s elevator-music feel begins to shine through. In "Mas Que Nada," his voice is never powerful enough to generate any true get-up-and-swing Latin excitement. If you decide to avoid sure humiliation in your roommate's eyes by programming "Beat It" and "Ooh Child" out and listening to only the Spanish songs...
...Beck had when he was so suddenly confident of "Where It [was] At." The rest of the album approaches the clarity of "Debra," as if Beck is trying on mask after mask until he finds the one that fits. These masks are made out of tin, but they shine; they shine magenta and chrome blue and those are colors nobody has seen since some decade that exists primarily in Beck's mind. Apparently, it was a decade worth revisiting...
...Sandhurst, though, Churchill began to shine. He graduated 20th in a talented class of 130 cadets, and then shipped out to India. In India, Churchill established himself as a national war hero and as an emergent man of letters. He felt the "desire for learning" at age twenty-two, and he gave himself a better education than his peers received from Oxford and Cambridge schoolmasters. He then began to write popular but anonymous war columns for London newspapers. Once he went to the front with the Malakand Field Force, he supplied Londoners with riveting accounts of the battle...
...only done all his asking but jumped out of airplanes besides, it really is difficult to tell him it's too hard. But that little saying is still a taunt. The time runs too long when it's theirs and much too short when it's yours (shine boots, clean locker, floss). Monday, they always promise you, it's going to get really tough. But it seems true that if you do what they tell you, when they tell you, and as many times as you possibly can without passing out, there's only so much they...