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...performance also suffers from the uneven quality of accents assumed by the players. Good British accents are key to a Porter show, and in Nymph Errant, the accents of the various European characters become equally important. But in this production, many of the accents are forced or nonexistent...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Porter's Aged Nymph Goes Astray at Harvard | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

This evolution of American official attitudes has been subtle and uneven. It has been couched in caveats, often obscured by ambivalence and articulated, sometimes inarticulately, by a Chief Executive who has no flair for geopolitical grand rhetoric and has a tendency to step on his applause lines. Still, the change on the American side, if it continues, could turn out to be as important as Gorbachev's abandonment of the Leninist plan for winning the zero-sum game of history. The American equivalent of what the Soviets call new political thinking is all the more significant coming from the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Road to Malta | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Another major mystery is the fact that the faint glow of microwaves left over from the Big Bang is almost completely uniform. The presence of large bubbles in the universe suggests that this microwave radiation should be much more uneven. More clues may come from the new Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, which is designed to measure radiation intensities as it orbits the earth in the coming year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Bubbles in the Cosmos | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...about two weeks, the National Organization for Women (NOW) will sponsor a mobilization in the nation's capital for abortion rights, but students at Harvard seem to have lent uneven support to the cause...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Harvard Pro-Choice Forces Face Questions | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

Even when the pace slows, Jenny Gibbs does a graceful job of playing Alice; her performance is full of energy and her girlish gestures are appropriate. If her accent is uneven, it is only out of consistency with the work--Alice admits in the first act that she is a native of both Oxford and Hackensack, which cannot help but to confuse Gibbs' speech pattern...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: A Modern Looking Glass | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

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