Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a slight similarity in the mentoring relationship between the swan and the Prince to that of Bourne and Cooper. Cooper, 25, the Royals' most adventurous, vibrant dancer, began by working with Bourne occasionally. Swan Lake changed all that. Cooper became the toast of London when the show ran there nightly for 21 weeks last fall. He left the Royals and committed himself to Bourne's company, Adventures in Motion Pictures...
...subject so huge requires a site that can accommodate its hugeness. Yet any memorial true to the war would crush the site. And any memorial true to the site would slight...
Maybe Liu could have looked to the front of the church to see the cross displayed proudly for all to see. Or he could have noticed a slight religious bias during the prayers or confession of sins...
...only real singer in the ensemble, and her voice in song had a sweetness that disappeared in the exaggerated emphasis of her speech. Her character was an obvious spinoff of the book-loving Belle of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, down to the sweet if slight, Broadway-Disneyish lyrics: "Books are better than love." Even her foils, the three brightly-clad senoritas--Lolita (Debbie Hunter '00), Rosita (Jasmin Roman '00), and Marguerita (Shannon Tracey '00)--who coo over the very name of El Bean, were clearly modeled after the three blondes who pine after macho-man Gaston...
...researchers found that children in high-quality day care--the kind in which adults talk to them a lot in a responsive way--have a slight advantage over kids in less attentive settings when it comes to language and learning abilities. Those include such skills as recognizing shapes or understanding relations among objects--what study coordinator Sarah Friedman of the NICHD called "the bedrock of school readiness." Then again, children who spend long hours in day care, especially low-quality care, were slightly less engaged in their interactions with moms, who were themselves less sensitive to the child's cues...