Suzuki showed a patient structural command, giving an arc-like shape to the Kyrie by waiting a hundred or so bars before applying a substantial crescendo.

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Yes, it feels good in the hand, owed in part to that matte plastic back and subtle arc S-like curve, but the materials feel cheap.

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Reality TV gained in popularity around the same time as the vanguard of long-story-arc pioneers like The Sopranos came along.

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Natalie Portman, as skillful as she is attractive, does have her moments -- it's affecting to see her hair being shaved, like Joan of Arc -- but wide-eyed Evey whimpers endlessly, and tediously, on her way to becoming a fearless woman who's able to love.

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He piggybacks this unit directly on top of a scope, allowing him to produce never-before-captured wide-field images, like his striking, ghostly picture of Barnard's Loop-a huge arc of gas that covers the length of the constellation Orion.

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Elsewhere, mountains shoot straight up an 11-foot-tall hanging scroll by Mi Wanzhong (1570-1628) while, in the late-16th to early-17th century fan hanging beside it, Sun Zhi's mountains arc and lunge like waves.

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Like so many other items in the company's lineup, the Arc has a soft-touch back, adorned with a diamond pattern of criss-crossed lines.

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