Word: timelessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show achieves absolute emotional believability in the performance of the title role by Spiro Malas, a baritone behemoth who does not stint either the character's crudeness or his virtue. When he stands alone, singing of his needs, the patina of the period slips away and what remains is timeless...
Unfortunately for the Harvard women's hockey team, this timeless concept did not work in its favor Sunday, when the Crimson fell 2-1 to Princeton...
...before it brings most of its principals to the edge of the title gorge, there to commune with a symbol of the timeless universe's indifference to our petty bedevilments, the film accomplishes something remarkable: it forces us to contemplate the fragility of our everyday arrangements, the ease with which brutal chance can void the habits and relationships we count on to give life its continuity. It is hard to think of another American movie that has so directly, even naively, confronted the basic source of our existential unease. Or done so with such easy humor and graceful sentiment...
...easy to stage The Pirates of Penzance. The ridiculous, possibly offensive story is neither timeless nor universal. Several profound topics are explored: love based on youthful beauty, the "marrying" of maidens against their will, and action from a sense of duty though in contradiction to one's values. Although many productions derive humor from mocking these themes, the musical score saves this melodramatic opera from being lost...
...DISMEMBERING of Pearl Harbor depends on two arguments about Japan: First, the establishment of difference (the bigger the better) between Japan and the U.S. in 1941. Second, the assertion of a timeless continuity in Japanese history, from before the Meiji reforms, through the war and into the next century...