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Less "violent" in nature but requiring no less energy and skill is ballroom dancing, which (along with surfing) has recently been given provisional recognition by the Olympic committee...
This leap of illogic failed to take into account Bev's outstanding work with RCS, the skill required to coax musical excellence out of inexperienced singers and the enthusiasm with which Boston-area critics, players and audiences receive Bev's concerts, as well as her fine international reputation. Did anyone imagine that she was invited to England, the Scandinavian countries or Poland to enjoy miles of shimmering tropical beaches? The want of security prompted her to initiate an outside job search. To her credit, she was considered for several of the nation's top positions and, unlike many junior faculty...
...Limehouse murders is, essentially, the question and plot of the novel. Unfortunately, this malange of fiction and fact is longer on intellectual pleasures than emotional resonance. Ackroyd has Dickensian ambitions and tries to show a city full of interlocking coincidences leading inexorably to tragedy. He does so with considerable skill but untimely haste. The intricacies of his plot seem ultimately to trace vectors rather than lives...
Sister Floralba had lived in Kikwit most of her life. She was widely known and deeply loved, for her medical skill and her kindness. She often found clothes for the very poor, and food. When she died her body was carried all through the hospital, and then through town to the cathedral, where she lay in an open coffin for two days so her friends could view the body. They stood over her and wept, caressed her face, sang her praises. It was the end of April, and no one knew what had killed her. But they would soon find...
...House of Martha and Mary was to the sumptuous nudes of Titian or Veronese. A modern palate would recoil at the eggs slowly frying, or rather poaching, in oil on top of a clay stove in Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing act of skill the picture itself is, done in 1618 by a 19-year-old boy who wanted to display his total control over surface texture, form and light, from the transparency of the oil in which the eggs swim to the knife's curved shadow on a bowl to the marvelous fugue...