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While Bedelia, as Shirley, gives an admirable performance, the lines do not give her a chance to express the complete range of her character. She is stifled by Friedman's stiff unemotional dialogue. Unlike Rocky, with whom the audience seemed to sweat and also cheer. Shirley is a cold, almost superhuman character who seems to know exactly what she wants and how to get there. We watch her plow her way through personal conflicts, the male dominated world of the race track, with a hard-nosed determination that asks for no compassion. Shirley always wins her races, and we always...
...myth. The performance is almost preternaturally nuanced, unfolding with a sure sense of logic and purpose. Even during the patented Rossini crescendos, Celibidache maintains a calm yet iron control, putting the listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish haze that shimmers like the heat off a Madrid sidewalk in midsummer. The cool, nocturnal redolence of the slow movement, Les parfums de la nuit, hangs suspended...
...system was backwards," Flug said. "Students had to sweat through an entire term of frustration and disaster before going to a special class [The tutoring system] was inefficient in terms of time and it was insufficient. Right now it's a nightmare," she added...
...Egan warns that Jaguar must spend $300 million before 1989 to keep abreast of the best. Says he: "It's no good for us to do with sweat and tears what Mercedes-Benz achieves with machines." One option for BL is to sell Jaguar...
...felt like I was training all the time. I think I got worn down by it." The trainer of the women's team, John Atkins, says, "If we put in the same amount of work as the Europeans, we would not have a prayer. We have to work harder, sweat more and cowboy it out. More and more, the elegant, pretty skiing doesn't make it. What wins is the slam and bash and amazing recoveries. When you have 90 women with pretty much the same ability at the top of a hillside, the ones who are going to make...