That practice has now become as essential a part of his business travel as his frequent-flier mileage.
Part circus act, part performance art, part psych job, part street hustle, it combined to become as essential to the Ali myth as his grace in the ring.
Appropriately for an age in which self-consciousness has become as essential (and expected) an element of human communication as vocal cords are, "The Drowsy Chaperone" divides the chores and lets Mr. Martin's character do most of the interpretive work.
(Tommasini) ★ Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Sunday and Tuesday) For many concertgoers in the New York area, hearing the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center play the six Bach Brandenburg Concertos has become as essential a holiday tradition as taking in a performance, or two, of Handel's "Messiah".
Over the next nine months, the Lokomotiv hockey club will seek to replace a team that had become as essential to this thousand-year-old city as its ancient Kremlin.
Besides Wayne, they included stars like Ward Bond, Henry Fonda and Victor McLaglen and dozens of lesser-knowns like Mr. Carey whose faces became as essential to the foreground of Ford's westerns as buttes and mesas were to the background.
After "White Christmas" became World War II's national anthem of American homesickness, when Bing Crosby's recording became as essential to G.I. battle gear as hand grenades and C rations, Berlin had the initial verse suppressed.It had already absented itself from "Holiday Inn," Crosby's snowbound movie of 1942, for obvious meteorological reasons, and from his recording of the same year.
And in Japan the term of art is keitai, which roughly means "something you can carry with you".This disjunction is revealing for an object that, in the space of a decade, has become as essential to human functioning as a pair of shoes.
"At long last, it's moving out of the halls of business and into our daily lives, with the potential to become as essential and pervasive as the telephone or electricity".
