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...Even the staid Cambridge dons from A Room of One's Own understood the power of food to feed the minds of men. Feed your mind, your soul and your heart tonight with the gentle rapture of a good meal and good company. Harvard will be much better...
...Robison deseves high praise for her sensitive and innovative arrangement and for throwing a little verve into the often staid domain of classical music...
Like many others just beyond the bustling camera crews and staid Secret Service agents outside Bushnell Theater, Rivera bitterly suggested that neither the debate nor the election would change things in his neighborhood...
PUTNAM INVESTMENTS, Boston; 800-225-1581. The recent performance of this venerable company, which runs more than 90 funds, is anything but staid. Putnam owes its success in part to its rigorous research and its collaboration between analysts and groups of managers. Its equity funds, such as the high-flying New Opportunities Fund, are among the best performing funds overall in the business...
...Aleksa Palladino), according to convention hereafter referred to as "Manny" and "Lo," survive through shoplifting, house-breaking-and-sleeping-in, and the liberal use of their deceased mother's station wagon. When Lo gets undeniably pregnant, the spunky pair adds a bigger crime to their misdemeanors and kidnap a staid ex-nurse (Mary Kay Place) incongruously behind the counter at one of those sickeningly precious baby supplies stores. They then hole up at an abandoned country house. Barring some frenzied running around at the end, most of the film takes place there amidst woodsy surroundings (where, inexplicably, a seemingly tropical...