(Chinen) ROY HARGROVE BIG BAND (Tuesday) The trumpeter Roy Hargrove has been a paragon of small-group hard bop since the early 1990s.
(Chinen) ROY HARGROVE BIG BAND (Tuesday) Mr. Hargrove, the trumpeter, has been a paragon of small-group hard bop since the early 1990's.
Laura Dern is brilliant as Ruth Stoops, a small-town paragon of irresponsibility, who, owing to glue sniffing, drinking, and general recklessness, has lost custody of her children and is homeless, under arrest, and under pressure from a liberal judge to terminate her pregnancy.
But the restaurants themselves are hardly paragons of design: their small, narrow spaces lack almost entirely anything recognizable as décor.
When the author was interviewed, he claimed to be penniless, but a paragon of virtues, not the least of which was his great love of small dogs.
With a deft finger on today's conservative pulse, Shlaes portrays Calvin Coolidge as a paragon of a president by virtue of his small-government policies.
In fact, most of von Frundsberg's battles were fought on behalf of Emperor Maximilian, who was hardly a paragon of freedom, but one should allow the young Grass his small romantic fancy.
Marie Antoinette, that paragon of all that was wrong with pre-Revolutionary politics, recreated a small French town on the grounds of Versailles where she and her friends pretended at being milkmaids, spraying warm milk into ceramic buckets painted like wood.
But the Free Democrats rarely win much more than 5% of the vote, the minimum needed to enter parliament, and their policy influence remains small.Despite its image of itself, the government is no paragon of reformist zeal.
The paragon of nitwittery?
