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...addition of the orchestra is a qualifiedboon. While the full richness of Puccini'sinstrumental color heightens the opera's dramaticeffectiveness, the playing is unforgivablyunkempt. The score's dense texture of overlappingdance rhythms is frayed by sloppy articulation.Some highly suspect intonation adds extra spice toPuccini's already piquant harmonies. Inparticular, the exuberance of the dance scene inthe second act is somewhat dampened by theconfusion...
Talented Harvard administrators really know how to spice up our vacations with some guilt and fear. Who except for masochists would ever have thought of placing final exams after the holidays? Two weeks of strained holidays, with exams, papers and final projects hanging over our heads just isn't the way we should live. Fortunately, always-resourceful Harvard students have fared pretty well...
First, when it looked like Harvard was thisclose to scoring with an Eion Hu rumble, Harvard Coach Tim Murphy decided to added some spice and called a pass...
...networks have responded by launching a war against channel grazing. All four are moving to shorten opening-credit sequences, spice up the end credits with program material (such as outtakes from the show just seen) and add more "seamless transitions" -- eliminating the commercials between shows -- in an effort to keep viewers hooked. Meanwhile, time slots are more critical than ever to a show's success or failure...
...this is exactly the problem. A writer who can make Bernstein's sex life boring is capable of any enormity. Respectful to a fault, but devoid of any spice or sauce, Leonard Bernstein is the kind of passionless hagiography that Leonard Bernstein would have hated...