Word: soft
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When Othello (Bashir Salahuddin) enters wearing a T-shirt, things only get a little better. Salahuddin plays the Moor consistently as a casual, soft-spoken general, but his voice is often too soft and always unemotional. As he presents his case before the Duke, Othello explains a little too calmly why Desdemona loves him. Later, when he loses his temper with the drunken Cassio (Jed Silverstein), Salahuddin gets angry too quickly and for too short a time...
Yesterday's opening was termed "soft" by officials; the grand opening will be Jan.4...
...Berry called the opening a "soft opening," saying that "all the hoopla around it will be the week of January...
...roaring underwater mudslide 515 million years ago and swept into water so deep and oxygen-free that the bacteria that should have decayed their tissues couldn't survive. Preserved were not just the hard-shelled creatures familiar to Darwin and his contemporaries but also the fossilized remains of soft-bodied beasts like Aysheaia and Ottoia. More astonishing still were remnants of delicate interior structures, like Ottoia's gut with its last, partly digested meal. (Read "The Ever Evolving Theories of Darwin...
From the students' perspective, all that matters right now are the baffling electronic registers. The training center itself is a full-scale mock-up of a fast-food restaurant, complete with menu board, soft-drink dispenser and enthusiastic instructor Bernadean Rouse, who plays a hard-driving shift manager. As she attempts to straighten out Jupiter, she shouts a general alert to the class: "If you don't hit the keys really hard, the numbers don't come up." Students help one another find the maddeningly elusive cash-register keys--there are 119 of them--while reminding their fellows to "Smile...