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...speech, he ignored them completely, choosing instead to tangle with Texas Gov. George W. Bush, upon whom Republican hopes for victory in 2000 have quickly come to rest. Without mentioning him by name, Gore derided Bush as a cheap convert to centrist politics, dismissing Bush's brand of "compassionate conservatism" as empty sloganeering. "Compassion is more than a pretty word," Gore monotoned. "It is the highest of all disciplines...
In stories such as Cortes Island, The Children Stay and Rich As Stink, women are stretched beyond the limits of convention by passion and circumstance. They are not complainers. Reticence is the pervading style of Munro's rural Ontario, where "drawbacks and adversity were not to be noticed, not to...
Edith Wharton's well known novella, Ethan Frome--a tale of love, forbidden passion and its tragic consequences--lends itself particularly well to a genre whose main intention is to represent and express human feelings on a grander scale. And that genre is none other than opera. Opera vows to...
Ostensibly, the opus was not uplifting. But it was rivetting. No one dared to flip a program during The Miraculous Mandarin. The tension mounted to such an unbearable degree that at the end of the piece, the audience collectively exhaled and all of Symphony Hall leaned back from the edge...
Grasping Jeanne closer within his arms, Brian gushes that, "The more I learn about Jeanne, the more I think she is beautiful in every single way. Jeanne is everything I admire. She is a role model as well as a best friend. I love her energy, her passion and her...