Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SINCE THE IRON CURTAIN FIRST started to tear in the early '80s, music lovers in the West have been exposed to a number of previously unknown composers whose reputations were obscured by the rigid Soviet system, among them Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Shnitke. Now comes a man who may well be the most important composer to emerge from the old Soviet Union since Dmitri Shostakovich: Giya Kancheli, 59, whose dolorous yet spiritually radiant music gives eloquent voice to the ongoing tragedy of his native Georgia...
...kids, they seem to adjust to life at Harvard better than some first-years. "I like it," states an unequivocal Basia, age ten. She is particularly happy about having close friends, like Zachary, an eighteen month-old mini-Matherite. Christina Gomez, house tutor and mother of eight-month-old Sofia, claims her daughter "loves having 400 of her closest friends with her constantly. She has these big cute cheeks that always get pinched ." Sofia can often be found having picnics on the floor of the dining hall with her colleague Avery, the eight-month-old son of Dr. Vincent Cryns...
...Sofia I. Echegaray '97 is one of the exceptions. "I'm so completely unorganized in every single way," she says. "I can't even balance getting up in the morning with changing my clothes, much less my checkbook...
...worst show of nepotism since the abysmal Sofia Coppolla stared in her daddy's "The Godfather: Part III" has got to be the casting of the director's wife, Madlyn. The parallel structure is nothing but kitschy and is certainly not worth her laughable performance. In her big scene in which she must grieve both the death of her father and her marriage, Ferrara must work Madlyn into a rage of frustration and abandonment. Instead she stands limp and half-heartedly bounces objects off Keitel. The audience can do nothing but laugh when she delivers her lines, addressing her husband...
...EDITOR" Sofia Coppola...