Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They adopted their thematic boldness from artists and their musical inventiveness from sources as diverse as Glass and James Brown. The band found a niche where the avantgarde and the mainstream could nicely accommodate each other. Says Byrne: "The band and I existed in a kind of middle ground, somewhat art, somewhat popular, so we ended up being caught in that whole phenomenon...
...twists in 'dentity Crisis. Jane (Marjorie Ingall) has a problem. She is a sane person in an insane world. Fortunately, psychotherapy has a cure. Everybody plays insanity soberly and satisfactorily straight in this one. And Jane's sullen paranoia is relatively refreshing, even if the play's conclusion is somewhat unsatisfactory...
Bailey is a somewhat myth-like figure for students in the Classics department. Known as much for his attire--suits and striped sneakers--as for his erudite texts, he is generally thought to be, as one student put it, "as inaccessible as he is scholarly--and he's very both...
Wylie is not the first skater to both compete regularly and attend classes at Harvard. While living along the river, Dick T. Button '52, somewhat of a legend in men's figure skating, held five major figure skating titles in 1949 simultaneously--including medals at the Olympics, World, National, North American and European competitions. Radcliffe captured its own share of skating glory when Tenley Albright '57 captured her fifth consecutive National Ladies' Title and second Olympic Gold Medal in 1956. Both of these Olympians naturally spent much of their time shuttling between the Yard and the historic Boston Skating Club...
...gambit backfired badly. A furious Lugar denounced Botha's warning as "despicable" and bordering on "bribery and intimidation." Somewhat startled, Botha shot back that it was the first time he had heard that "one was not supposed to provide information to an American Senator." His riposte seemed relatively mild, considering that the bill under review was designed specifically and solely to influence South African policy. Still, Botha apparently failed to appreciate the Senate's carefully nurtured view of its proceedings as "deliberative" and free from apparent coercion...