Word: soso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This applies even when (especially when) one production is sublime and the other soso. Much Ado thrills the senses with its fairy-tale weave of love, honor and wit. Cyrano is a lesser play and a lesser production, a theatrical war horse that keeps buckling at the knees. Yet Cyrano is a more typical Royal Shakespeare evening. The capacious stage of the Gershwin Theater teems with actors and activity; Ralph Koltai's set is brownish, broody, tattered just so; the tone of the crowd scenes is strenuously raunchy; during the battle scene, cannon fire pops your eardrums...
Andrea (Adalberto Maria Merli) left home to make good and made soso; he conducts and composes for television in Milan. Francesco (Michele Placido) stayed home and did about the same-though he thinks he did worse-teaching music and conducting the choir. But at 40, the lifelong friends still have some ambition left and a last chance to exercise...
...almost effortlessly by new computerized trading systems at the New York Stock Exchange and drastically modifying the definitions of what were "light," "moderate" and "heavy" trading days. From August through June, an average of 86 million shares was traded daily. A 50 million-share day is now regarded as soso; in the late 1940s trading rarely reached 1 million shares a day, and even in the 1960s a 6 million-share day was considered a monster. (Of course, the volume of shares outstanding has increased by 74% since 1975.) Says William M. LeFevre of New York's Purcell, Graham...
...follow the patterns established by the original Whole Earth Catalog: short and pithy. Looking up from the Kaypro computer he uses for all of his writing, Brand gave an impromptu sample of the unadorned, telegraphic style that he favors: "Perfect Writer," he said, identifying the disc in his computer. "Soso. It came with the machine...
...sanity, a President needs a sense of humor. Reagan and J.F.K. get high marks, Ford soso. Carter and Nixon each had a lively wit, on the biting side, but never developed an attractive...