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...Ormindo” to demonstrate the importance of performance gestures in interpreting arias and recitatives. In a Baroque opera, gestures are instrumental in communicating feeling. This stylization is understandably difficult to grasp, and resulted in artifice; the poses were affected rather than affecting.As Erisbe, Felicia Plunkett could not manage smooth transitions from comedy to farcical complexity to sobriety, allowing inappropriate smirks to marr her beautiful, lyric soprano. It can’t be easy, though, to betray three men simultaneously in the show’s first hour and emerge as a paragon of fidelity in the second...
...from freshman Christine Wu and an assortment of kills from the aggressive trio of Flesher, Comrie, and McKinley. At 24-21, the three led a 5-0 run to rob the Lions of the first stanza.“We hit our stride,” Durwood said.It was smooth sailing for the Crimson following the first game. —Staff writer Emmett Kistler can be reached at ekistler@fas.harvard.edu...
...smooth, seductive rap, unfolding in much the same way in book after book. The Daughters of Joy is no exception. Unlike Chopra's previous novel Soulmate, which dwelt at length on specifically Eastern ideas like karma and reincarnation, Daughters focuses on a figure long popular in Western myth and legend, and among contemporary New Agers as well: the Wise Woman. Its slim plot revolves around Jess Conover, a young reporter at a Boston newspaper. Confused, adrift and emotionally anemic, Jess stumbles, seemingly by chance, on a classified ad in a newspaper: "Love has found you. Tell no one. Just come...
...Fowler-Finn said that his early exit was merely a matter of taking his vacation days and allowing a smooth transition for current Deputy Superintendent Carolyn L. Turk to preside over the year’s budget deliberations as interim superintendent...
...place that they, their daughters and the new President's mother-in-law will soon be calling home. Since September, Podesta has been quietly working with current White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and Bolten's deputy, Blake Gottesman, to make sure the transition is as smooth as possible. Bolten and Gottesman have been offering advice on which posts need to be filled quickest and making their personnel available to Obama advisers. More than 100 interim security clearances have already been granted to Obama aides. "If a crisis hits on Jan. 21, they're the ones who are going...