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Patti Cohenour, who has just returned from playing Christine with the Canadian National Company, is excellent in her role as the singer. The chemistry between Cohenour's tranquil Christine and Gray's stormy Phantom is perfect. These performances make this standard beauty and beast tale touching...
When the revolution erupted in 1917, Nicholas reacted with bizarre passivity. He abdicated and went quietly into exile in Tobolsk, relieved to have exchanged his gilded prison for a more tranquil confinement. But this soft-spoken autocrat, whose exquisite manners and flickering will had once led a courtier to describe him as "nodding tirelessly in opposite directions," was no match for the hard men of Bolshevism. Their fledgling regime, already embroiled in intramural disputes, was threatened by enemies on all sides, and they saw the Romanovs as both a potential threat and a trump card. From the relative comfort...
...Walden, a leisurely walk around Americanliteratures most celebrated getaway is a must.This transcendentally tranquil pond is closed inby trees--lots of them--leaving little room forfrisbee or laying out. Yet the narrow path thatlazily winds around Walden is sufficient forreflective strolls and discussions about civildisobedience...
...March, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson spoke at the school, and drew national attention to student calls for more faculty diversity. And in April, even the usually tranquil Harvard Law Reivew added to the controversy by publishing a parody of an article by a slain feminist scholar on the an niversary of her death...
Even as the old Yugoslavia is cut apart, blood continues to flow. For 10 months now, this has been no tranquil subdivision but a vicious battle among ethnic and religious groups in which principles of self-determination conflict with respect for territorial integrity. And as the relentless loss of lives and the destruction of old and lovely cities continue, the U.S. and its European allies wonder who is to blame and what it will take to stop the killing...