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...times post-modern, at times vaudevillian and it is frequently uneven. A bonus in all of this is the truly great moments that come with creative tinkering. The opening is funny, ingenious and anachronistic; a prologue entreating the 20th century audience to be indulgent and, one would suppose, to engage in willing suspension of disbelief...

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

...performance was almost too controlled and too precise in the first portion of the program. Several crescendo passages in the first and last movements of the first sonata seemed tentative and lacking in the forceful intensity that the listener expected. In addition several of the piano passages were uneven in tone. His rendition of a passage in the Largo appassionata movement of the second sonata, however was breathtaking in its delicate beauty...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: A Life of Beethoven | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

Congress always wages an uneven battle with the President, but Democratic political consultant Ted Van Dyk declares, "The troops are starting to get restless. There have been no clear alternatives and damn little criticism. Foley and Mitchell should be out front." Yet the Democrats have been mired in troubles of their own: the convoluted agony of the pay raise, the forced resignations of Speaker Jim Wright and whip Tony Coelho, and now the sex scandal involving Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. Nor is the climate right for combat, with the economy perking along and the President enjoying an extended honeymoon. Grouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . And on Capitol Hill | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

Extraordinary? Yes. Unexpected? Hardly. These days, events in Eastern Europe are so topsy-turvy that bloc uniformity seems to have given way to a breathless rush of uneven developments. In Hungary, where a multiparty system is in the works, Communist Party chief Karoly Grosz reportedly announced that < he was prepared to step down, a move that was interpreted as a victory for reformers. In East Germany the government sought to rid itself of malcontents by handing out unprecedented numbers of exit permits, while thousands of other unhappy citizens simply fled over the Hungarian border. In Poland the Communist Party Politburo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Uncharted Waters | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...other three tables are chipped, and the legs holding up the table are uneven. The lights upstairs aren't kept up, since most of the squash players play downstairs...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Table Tennis: Low Budget But High Class | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

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