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Elsewhere the touch is surer. Blessed with an extraordinarily vivid Mime in Dutch Tenor Hubert Delamboye, Rochaix gives the conniving dwarf free rein, particularly in Siegfried, where his exchanges with the sturdy Siegfried (American Heldentenor Edward Sooter) have a sharp, often humorous bite. And having Siegfried relate his wooing of Brunnhilde directly to Gunther near the end of Gotterdammerung gives the innocent Siegfried's ensuing murder a special poignancy...
This became the tenor of the track meet. Sprinter Carl Lewis, the quadruple gold medal man of 1984, said, "The Russians just cheat." Reminded that it was a Jamaican from Canada (Ben Johnson) who dusted him in the 100 -- for the second time this year, incidentally -- Lewis reasoned, "They'll try to help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak...
...know is a far more conservative decade in terms of sexual encounters and the one night stand. But in About Last Night, the intial meeting between Danny and Debbie has been altered so that it seems almost acceptable and proprietous as opposed to the hard, no commitment tenor of their meeting in the play...
White is wrong to think that his decision simply follows the tenor of history. This country was founded on the principles of tolerance and minority rights. By flouting these principles so blatantly, White not only betrays the spirit of the framers of the constitution, but also sets a dangerous precedent for future intolerance and oppression...
...suspicion, secrecy and high emotions obvious in many conversations with individuals close to the Center may cloud their assessments of its finances. The tenor of those conversations--interviews which professors and accomplished scholars angrily sprinkle with profanities--underscores another legacy of the last several years that observers say will tax any administrator who takes over the Center's direction...