Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really happy we played a solid game, though it wasn't our best," said senior Gillian Caldwell. "There was sloppy passing on both teams...
Feltsman falls between extremes. An angular, bearded man with the suffering face of a symbolist poet, he communes with the keyboard, not with the audience. His technique is solid but not especially flashy, his tone rich but not warm. Like many Soviets, Feltsman has some residual romantic mannerisms, such as a rhythmic stutter step in phrasing that in the early 19th century would have been viewed as a genuine rubato (literally, robbing the time value of one note and adding it to another) but is today decried as distortion...
Although a chronological account of Turing's life might make a solid social- problem drama, Whitemore and Lead Actor Derek Jacobi, who shared in the play's conception, plainly wanted something beyond gay-rights advocacy. In successive productions they have focused ever more on the intellectual insights that made Turing unique without losing either his eccentricity or his humanity. The complex structure of flashbacks and flash forwards, monologues and dreamlike incidents is meant to convey something of the flavor and psychological sources of his genius. Much like Mozart in Amadeus, this sophisticated thinker seems suspended emotionally in adolescence. As Turing...
...This agreement is probably not the best deal that could be made, but it is a good, solid beginning," Reagan said. He said it was "a plan that meets our short-term concerns and while laying the foundation for longterm solutions...
...performed the procedure a few times before deciding to stop. Similarly, Ginsburg's investment in a cable-television company while he served in the Justice Department was not illegal. By themselves, these incidents could have been shrugged off. Yet taken together, they hardly painted a portrait of the solid, well-grounded individual the public would normally expect on the Supreme Court...