I definitely shed a few quiet tears, but mostly I was just trying to absorb it, to take it all in — as a citizen who'd voted; as someone who'd volunteered in a campaign [to elect a friend to Congress]; but also as a historian who gets paid to think about these things in a bigger context.
The key for all of us--celebrity athletes or not--is to reinterpret failures as a setback in a bigger context and then learn from it.
In the Inclusion world this experience is supporting people to transform their roles from beleaguered, tired, invisible, and depressed drudgery, towards enlivened activism fed by underground roots and streams of resourcefulness, renewal, courage and bravery that comes with seeing and feeling self in a bigger context.
This embedding in a bigger context provides a means for dedicated approaches aimed at the identification of disease mechanisms.
And Scotland's constitutional future needs to be seen in a bigger, global context.
But it is possible to imagine Phoenix clinging on to his idiosyncrasies even in a big-budget context, like his peers Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt.
John Colianni, whose virtuosity as a jazz pianist has been heard both in a big-band context with Lionel Hampton's band and in solo engagements in local piano rooms, has joined with the cornetist Ed Polcer and Mr. Colianni's regular bassist, Bill Moring, in a trio playing through Sunday at the Fortune Garden Pavilion, 209 East 49th Street.
