When Tony Blair was prime minister he used to grumble to his cronies that he knew half his cabinet were second rate, but what was he supposed to do when the people on the benches behind were mostly third rate?
Don't get me wrong, Hart came with a ton of energy (perhaps too much at times), but the material was mostly second rate.
The cast I heard on opening night was mostly first-rate; casts alternate.
He died in 1975 at the age of sixty-eight... Describes a succinct exhibition, at the Equitable Tower's AXA Gallery, of more than forty mostly first-rate Porter paintings, accompanied by rich documentary and explanatory material.
After running over mostly second-rate opponents in an overhyped winning streak, the Nets lost their second straight game to an elite team last night.
Unlike Mr. Parrish, who bought mostly second-rate Italian Renaissance art and reproductions of Greek and Roman statuary, William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888), a financier and philanthropist, bought contemporary American art.
Writing for The Village Voice, Norah Vincent, a freelance columnist, described the "Seinfeld" book as "a collection of essays by mostly third-rate philosophers from mostly substandard institutions -- a fact that should come as no surprise".
Waters had by now left the band, and the music was mostly second-rate – but the cover image was arguably Thorgerson's ultimate piece: 800 hospital beds, arranged in perfect lines on Saunton Sands, in Devon.
Perhaps that's because, in an odd reversal of national stereotypes, the Royal Ballet School brought mostly second-rate contemporary choreography and ABTII performed Tudor, Balanchine and a modestly inventive piece by Jodie Gates.
So it has gone this season, though Coney Island remains pretty much what it was 30 years ago -- a cliche of seedy decay, a shrunken little strip of mostly second-rate amusements set against a charmless backdrop of high-rise housing projects.
