Most of Shavit's heroes are well-established, secular, Ashkenazi males, with preference given to those with a personal and ideological background that tilts slightly (not overly so) to the left.
Careless Whisper by Wham! topped the chats in 1984, and for 14 years after that, Michael's music videos featured scantily clad, slightly sweaty and overly pouty women, whom Michael gazed at, touched, and sang about.
SoHo Through Oct. 14 Imagine a cross between the early 20th-century Pictorial photography of Edward Steichen and early 90's abject art and you are close to the evocative, slightly macabre, sometimes overly precious images of Saul Fletcher, an English photographer who is having his second solo show in New York.
Two young soloists sang respectably: Nathan Berg with a warm bass-baritone that sounded slightly muted and overly obedient, and Janice Chandler-Eteme with a rounded soprano but a little too much audible sculpturing of the classically simple lines of "Pie Jesu".
UMY method was slightly conservative, and sometimes overly conservative, especially at high ratio of cyclic load to primary steady load.
Some other garnishes proved almost as awful: fusty, reheated and slightly dry rice and overly salty mashed potatoes.
Lifetime used to have a reputation for making overly dramatic, slightly silly movies with far too many colons in the titles about women in peril.
Writer/director Paul Weitz has assembled an excellent cast but they are stuck with a slightly unbalanced stew of overly recognizable elements.
By contrast, the mixing zone in a high-K layer is slightly narrowed when it overlies a layer with a relatively low K because flow refraction squeezes the streamlines within the mixing zone.
ACCURACY The ad's claims are factually correct, but at times overly simplistic and slightly misleading.
It is minimal but not oppressively so, and has a slightly spartan atmosphere without being overly utilitarian.
