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...Mostly they escape through song, and it?s wondrous to see and hear the over-familiar melodies and lyrics in context again. ?Some Enchanted Evening?, which always struck me as the stodgiest of the big R&H love ballads, becomes an affecting, shape-shifting reflection of the show?s emotional movement, from the joy of love-at-first-sight to the rueful foreshadowing of love lost. Even the seemingly simple lyrics of ?A Wonderful Guy? glide from ironic detachment to full-throated romanticism with deceptive wit and charm...
...group's insurance operations, whose investments have been ravaged by the cratering stock market. "We've not seen such volatility in the history of the world," says Jozef de Mey, chief executive of the Fortis AG insurance subsidiary. Wait a minute - aren't insurers supposed to be the stodgiest, most conservative investors around? Even if they can't forecast the future, they are, after all, the companies that other people turn to for protection against risk. Like Fortis, the entire European insurance industry has got ill from the stock market bug it caught a decade ago - and everyone who owns...
...Impressive Instant" will get even the stodgiest of boys on the dance floor and "Runaway Lover" takes the momentum and spins another crisp (if slightly repetitive) club tune. William Orbit returns to contribute "Amazing," an even more souped up variation on the melody of "Beautiful Stranger...
Harvard can certainly boast one of the world's finest faculties. It can also boast of the world's whitest, malest, oldest, stodgiest, non-teachingest faculties. Much can be done to attract professors of diverse races, genders, ages, academic backgrounds and educational attitudes without sacrificing quality...
...concept cars on his Big Chief tablet suddenly finds himself the hottest automotive designer in America. As Chrysler's design chief he has been a major force in one of the most remarkable product turnarounds in the industry's history: a shift from what were considered some of the stodgiest cars of their era to some of the most curvaceous. His ascent began with two sports cars, the elegant, nimble and fast Dodge Stealth, and the implausibly overpowered V-10 road rocket known as the Viper, both of which bore the now unmistakable Galean lines. His masterwork came...