Word: touched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tenor in the December 5-10 performances only, was downright magnificent, displaying a remarkable range and amazing facility in both a smooth, unornamented style and a more decorative, vibrato-filled voice. Certain fast high notes, especially quick jumps up the range in the first few tenor solos sounded a touch over-breathy. However, as the piece progressed, Rickards' slow high sections became a real asset, showing off his incredibly pure, sweet timbre and bell-like resonance. Rickards' runs were exquisite and flawless, his style characterized by very creative use of flourishes, including several impressive octave-wide jumps from ending note...
...course there is more to it than that. A perfectionist, she has turned herself into one of the best in her narrow field; her 20-ft. palms are almost impossible to distinguish from living vegetation. "Our goal is to make you stand up and touch it to find out if it is real," says Lewis. She has allied herself with another globe-trotting expert: Paul Steelman, an interior architect who specializes in casinos. "Linda follows us around and helps create the casinos we want to create," says he. In a world hungry not just for American style but for American...
Sporting a pair of black alligator cowboy boots, he's talking tougher, negotiating harder and mincing words less than ever during frequent rants about an industry he says is desperately out of touch with its core consumer. "A lot of these owners have big egos," Ford says. "They like to talk, but few of them like to listen. But they should, because pro sports is in serious danger of alienating the average...
...that Reno seems on the verge of closing that inquiry, FBI officials are worried that Justice lawyers will return to micromanaging agents' information-gathering forays that touch on the conduct of Clinton, Gore and other senior figures. Ultimately, FBI officials warn, the fundamental question of the affair--Was there an overarching scandal to violate campaign laws?--may go unresolved...
...that Coppola is in a disconcerting decline. Indeed, there is a sad moment in Rainmaker when Rudy is introduced to the sleazy lawyer Bruiser (Mickey Rourke). Bruiser's office is appropriately gloomy and uninviting--there is a tank of menacing sharks stationed behind his desk. We smile at the touch and appreciate the subtlety. Coppola, however, feels it necessary to explain his "genius." In the middle of the conversation, Bruiser interrupts to ask Rudy "Did you see my sharks? Get it, lawyers, sharks? Get it?" Yes, we all get it, Mr. Coppola...