Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their current face-off, Gore, surprisingly, is doing better than Kemp. The first test came during the two party conventions. Both men did well, "but Gore actually turned things around," says Frank Luntz, the G.O.P. pollster who used focus groups to analyze the various convention performances. "Before the conventions," says Luntz, "Kemp was preferred over Gore. After they spoke, Gore surged ahead, a reversal due entirely to Gore's home-run speech...
...Nightingale (Terence Caza), are busy combing through the library looking for evidence about why Byron left England in such a god-awful hurry, how the tutor Septimus may have been involved, the identity of the rent-a-hermit, and who, exactly, Ezra Chater was. As they work through these various literary-historical mysteries, they also flirt with the waspish residents of the house, Valentine and Chloe Coverly (Willis Sparks and Annika Peterson). Oh, and a mute kid wanders about the premises. Sadly, he is mostly on stage...
...reflected by the findings of the various investigations, the negligence of the Mass. State Police (MSP) was the direct and proximate cause of the accident resulting in nearly $200,000 in damages to the Harvard Sailing Center," the Harvard attorney wrote. "The MSP is legally required to reimburse Harvard to the maximum extent permitted...
...associates about how he can't understand "the star-thing," which seems to refer to the way young kids get fixated on their media heroes. "E-bow" has weight enough to cast the more poppy songs on the album into perspective; in the context of this song, all the various pop genres toyed with on the album, from record-company-Romeo to hard-living-guitar-god, seem purposefully overt and artificial...
...Here, too, the sheer achievement is impressive; sound designer Amar Hamoudi prolongs a poem that would take five minutes to read aloud into a rhapsody of sound. Hamoudi, along with O'Maley, creates a series of moods based on the speed and intonation of the speaking voice, enhanced by various beats, snatches of music and random snatches of speech. (Some fragments of "The Waste Land" also find their...