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During the “first retirement” from 1993-95 when Jordan left after three straight championships and his father’s murder, there was a slight chance his time was over. Suddenly, you no longer saw him hawking Hanes or Gatorade, the Bulls retired his number and there was even a statue built of him outside the United Center...
...Hazmi, a slight, bespectacled, devout man who lives in a gated community in San Antonio with his wife and two young children, has been flown to New York, where a grand jury has been empaneled. No legal counsel has spoken publicly on his behalf...
...Boston Ballet usually offers enchanting and accomplished dance. Yet, while its current production starts out on a hopeful note with Gerald Arpino’s slight and appealing Suite Saint-Saëns, it is unable to sustain momentum through the headliner, Bruce Wells’ heavily anticipated A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Both shows are strongly choreographed and well-staged dramatically, but Midsummer ultimately disappoints due to an inexperienced cast of dancers unsuited to the material...
Gradually, the slight plot resolves with fine acting; the tension between drunken son and remote mother dissipates; feelings of ill will fade between Gabriel and the attractive Molly Ivors (the aforementioned cantankerous youth, played with a surprisingly beautiful conscientiousness by Brandy Zarle); and Bartell D’Arcy, supposedly the best baritone of his time (a role more than sufficiently fulfilled by Gannon McHale), settles his affairs with his almost reluctant hostess, Aunt Julia herself...
...Harvard Book Store upon the release of the Houghton Mifflin American Heritage Dictionary was one such event. The panel, which consisted of Steven Pinker, Wendy Kaminer and Robert Pinsky, provided a very lively discussion about words, their meanings and their usage. In a previous reading, Mark Doty, a slight-looking poet who will finish the season for the Grolier Poetry Shop, transformed himself strikingly by throwing himself into the poem, but without the shouting or posturing that might spring to mind when one thinks of poetry readings...