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...Handel and Haydn Society, self-styled "America's Premier Chorus and Period Orchestra," features many interesting baroque instruments, several of which shone in solos in L'Allegro. A baroque flute, for example, enjoyed a lovely solo and interchange with Saffer in Part I, marred only by slight stumbling in the first few bars. The instrument, though held and played like a modern flute, is of black enamel, and considerably wider in diameter. Also fascinating were the horns, ancestors to the modern French horn, which had no stops and could only be played in the primary overtone series, manipulated...
Granted, there were the Paul O'Neills, David Wellses, Jeff Fasseros and Jamie Moyers of the postseason--players who rose to the October moment and shone, very nearly carrying their respective squads further than they should have gone. But the inexplicable vanishing standouts sapped the Mariners and the Yankees of any chance to recreate what was so powerful two short seasons...
Hart and sophomore outside hitter Linda Jellison shone in the Cornell game. Jellison is quickly finding her place on the team after suffering from mono for most of the season last year...
Thank heaven for the Senate. Surely risking vicious audits themselves, those gallant St. Georges on the Finance committee pried up the IRS rock and shone their dazzling light on the oily squirmings thus revealed. Knowledge is power; so armed, we may yet turn the tide. If we fail, we could cross that 21st century bridge into a land like Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam's vastly incredible, exquisitely surreal romp through a near future in which bureaucracy is lord and master. Where if you don't have the proper stamp on your 27 B stroke six, soon enough Central Services...
Anti-death penalty forces have been reeling since the mug of Willie Horton shone in homes across America almost 10 years ago. But now questions about the morality of capital punishment have resurfaced, hopefully in a form that will destroy one of the last remnants of institutional barbarism in American society...