Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corner newsstands to snatch up copies of the city's first real-life newspaper since Aug. 9. The first edition of 128 pages-twice as big as usual-was fat with pre-Columbus Day advertising, an eight-page news review of the 56 "lost" days and the same somewhat tacky mix of gossip, sports and crime that distinguished the prestrike Post...
...woman of about 40 sits at the piano, somewhat haltingly playing a Chopin prelude. A second woman, perhaps 20 years older, wearing an expression that is meant to show patience, listens to the end, offers a teaspoonful of praise, then takes over the piano herself, makes a show of shutting the music rack and flexing her fingers, and plays the piece superbly, from memory. The performance is a cruelty, and the face of the younger woman shows that it has had its intended effect...
...women are mother and daughter, and their combat, on which Director Ingmar Bergman casts a dour and perhaps by now somewhat weary Northern eye, is all the more intense and enduring because it is grounded in love. Charlotte, the mother (formidably played by Ingrid Bergman-no relation to Ingmar-in her first Swedish language film in decades), is a concert pianist, acclaimed and prosperous, sailing grandly into late middle age. Eva, the daughter (Liv Ullmann in granny glasses, with a few lines of graceful weathering allowed to be visible on her ineffable forehead), is a church organist, the wife...
...book The South African Connection, the anti-apartheid author Ruth First writes that "by many South Africans Engelhard is regarded as the savior of the post-Sharpville economy." Individuals of somewhat different political sensibilities hold exactly the same view. Anglo-American, the multibillion dollar conglomerate the dominates the South African economy, offers this official word on Charles Engelhard: "In difficult times, when South Africa was badly in need of capital, Engelhard played a vital and signifigant role in helping to bring it from abroad. He thus not only restored confidence in the country's economy, but actively assisted in boosting...
...hangs somewhat solemnly in his locker: page forty-one, the front page of the sixth section of The Crimson's 1978 Registration Issue. Its message is clear, the headline boldly questioning, "So You Say You Can Punt...