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While Watertown is a newer community relations issue for the University, local political battles have long characterized Harvard’s relationship with Cambridge, where the City Council in the last several years has often shown very vocal opposition to development initiatives by the University...
...Bobby McGee) are interspersed with excerpts from letters to her parents. It's overlong and a bit overblown: so great was Joplin's talent that it takes two performers (one sings; the other does most of the talking) to encompass her. Make that three: because of the role's "vocal demands," two performers alternate nights as the singing Janis...
Birtwell, one of the team's most vocal clubhouse leaders, was the victim of several hard-luck losses over the course of the season...
...playground game has drawn some vocal defenders. "You mean there's weak in the world? There's strong?" howled SPORTS ILLUSTRATED columnist Rick Reilly. "Of course there is, and dodge ball is one of the first opportunities in life to figure out which you are and how you're going to deal with it." Martha Kupferschmidt, director of personnel and student services at the Murray school district in Utah, wonders why dodge ball has been singled out. "If we were going to ban dodge ball for aggressiveness," she says, "we would have to look at a whole gamut of sports...
...Shrek's sidekick, a pest, a troublemaker, a nonstop talker, and he may just harbor secret dreams of pop stardom. Mostly, though, he represents the reality principle in the movie--hooves on the ground, big ears swivelingly alert for false and dangerous notes. His vocal characterization is supplied by Eddie Murphy, and it is fair to say that not since Robin Williams in Aladdin has an actor so deliciously appropriated a movie. Whether he's fending off the sudden amorous attentions of Fiona's dragon, proposing an evening of man-to-man conversation with Shrek--to be followed...