Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Karter Reed was not so lucky, Paradoxically, his media image suffered because he was relatively normal. He was "a quiet boy and good student." Pity for poor Karter, for he didn't exemplify the convenient image of a kid failed by the society--up all night watching slasher flicks after being abused by one or more members of his dysfunctional family while the system turned a deaf ear to his horrible problems. There was nothing to blame in Karter's mundane backgroud except for the fact that he was also skate-boarding when they handed out brains and souls...
Bentley, who hails from Cold Springs Harbor, N.Y., has been described as both "intense and spontaneous" and "quiet...
...really respect him," Prusmack says. He's a quiet guy on the field, but he'll do something spectacular and that will pick up the team...
...Heller states that a graduate student living in Somerville might easily fulfill the role of a resident tutor at a much lower cost. I doubt, first, that one could find many graduate students who would be willing to be on 24-hour call to keep Mr. Heller's neighbors quiet when he needs to study or sleep, counsel him when he has an academic or personal problem, arbitrate conflicts with his roommates, make sure he is all right when he becomes seriously ill, let him into his room when he is locked out, write recommendations for him, advise him about...
...acts rather than belts, taking time and not challenging her vocal reach as she did at the 1991 Tony Awards (satirized by Forbidden Broadway, to the tune of I Could Have Danced All Night, as "I couldn't hit that note"). But two other numbers that would suit her quiet intensity -- the lovelorn Losing My Mind and the show-biz survivor's anthem I'm Still Here -- are left out, apparently because they appeared in Side by Side. Adding one in each act would make audiences happier without thwarting Andrews' gracious insistence on an ensemble show...