Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also been argued that reviews spoil the joy of theatrical discovery. But undergraduates speak amongst themselves about productions, and preconceptions surround almost every show staged. The experimental quality of a work does not protect it from this inevitability. Nor does it exempt it from scrutiny, printed or spoken...
...Yale has to be careful that they don'tallow the disappointment over not getting apostseason bid to spoil the kind of year they'vehad," Roby added. "They've got everybody back,they beat everybody in the league. What's not tobe excited about...
...dangerous and might encourage reckless behavior; Di Bona and crew have rejected some clips for that reason (like one showing a toddler apparently driving a car, while a parent actually steers off-camera). Others are concerned that people may begin to stage scenes specially for the program. That would spoil the caught-in-the-act charm but would hardly be unexpected. Once you give America a chance to produce a show for you, don't be surprised if everybody wants to be a star...
...father, that represent the play's best moments. Their interaction with one another and with the play's other actors is first-rate. Even the four Mather residents who walked through the back of the set during a climactic scene between the two parents did not manage to spoil the tension...
...style, with courtiers and endless speculation about her favorites. Look at that photograph of her with her Cabinet -- it says it all: she is the queen, among her dinner-jacketed knights. I think the fact that she has no woman in the Cabinet is extremely significant. Another woman would spoil the picture...