On the contrary, he was generally the liveliest person in the room.
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In my opinion, Leila and Porsha brought the liveliest, most engaging moments.
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Kourtney Kardashian's footage of the soirée was perhaps the liveliest of all.
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The liveliest bit of Gaza's economy is the recycling of war rubble.
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And in "The Portrait of a Lady" James was at his liveliest.
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It is the liveliest, though not nearly the best, painting of the bunch.
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Ms. Copeland, as "Firebird" shows, is actually at her liveliest as an actress.
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The liveliest letter writer in modern corporate America would certainly not agree with that.
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The liveliest period, however, is the harvest from mid-September to the end of October.
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The close-up images of wall graffiti with added color tend to be the liveliest.
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By far the liveliest moment of the broadcast was the impassioned sermon of Bishop Michael Curry.
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The Birmingham Conference is a reminder of one of the liveliest debates about the 2017 election debacle.
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Xi wants to render independent journalism impossible and choke off China's liveliest medium of criticism – social media.
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Many of the liveliest places are on the city's well-known Sixth Street stretch in downtown Austin.
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To say that the daily fish market is the liveliest part of town is not saying much.
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So the liveliest spots in town are near the dumpsters, where huge brown bears forage for food.
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Yet if the backlash started in America, Airbnb's first market, it is now liveliest in Europe, its biggest.
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But thanks to Sophia, youngest and liveliest of the four young women, the family gained another, larger prize.
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Yet Eliot's working title — "He Do the Police in Different Voices" — quoted Dickens at his liveliest and goofiest.
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" His crowd appeared liveliest, however, during his attacks on Clinton, often breaking into chants of "lock her up!
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A review in The New York Times said the "liveliest part of the show" was the four sisters.
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But the incident comes amid a clampdown on Kenya's media, long seen as the continent's liveliest after South Africa's.
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The moments when Lucy, the book's narrator, is shooting hoops offer some of the liveliest sports writing in fiction.
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The first four songs are the liveliest, after which the tempos slow down and the record gets gradually sleepier.
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Any college English major knows that Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald were one of the liveliest literary couples ever, right?
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He's probably still one of the half-dozen pitchers in the league that have the liveliest stuff under the zone.
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But the movie is at its liveliest when it depicts Mr. Frisell making his distinctive sound with a variety of colleagues.
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The liveliest mover, however, was the pound, creeping up 0.3% against the dollar to $1.2945 and against the euro to 85.41 pence.
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Whenever Mr. Aucoin gives vent to his liveliest voice — with hints here of Ravel, Britten and Thomas Adès — the opera takes off.
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When The New Yorker moved to the newly opened One World Trade, in January, 2015, O'Hara's was the cheeriest, liveliest spot around.
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The liveliest mover, however, was the pound, creeping up 0.3% against the dollar to $1.2945 and against the euro to 85.41 pence.
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The next phase of his career may turn out to be the liveliest—the one in which he forges a distinct identity.
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Matsuyama, Shikoku's biggest and liveliest city is known for its 19th-century haiku poet, Masaoka Shiki, one of Japan's four haiku masters.
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Her essay films are also memoirs; her personal reflections are also political; her saddest movies are also her liveliest, and vice versa.
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The liveliest issue up north at the moment is the upcoming trial of Alex Salmond on charges including sexual assault and attempted rape.
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Yarmouk, on the southern edge of Damascus, Syria's capital, was once the Palestinians' largest and liveliest refugee camp, sheltering displaced Iraqis and Syrians too.
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All the same, the Gilbert era is likely to be remembered as the Philharmonic's liveliest period since the Pierre Boulez experiment of the seventies.
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The album's liveliest and most urgent track is "If He Ain't Gonna Love You," a sales pitch in the guise of a rescue mission.
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And in the liveliest moments of his opening-night show at Feinstein's/54 Below on Tuesday evening, he had the string around his finger.
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The liveliest role goes to Zach Grenier ("The Good Wife") as Forest's security chief and enforcer, who spikes all the "Devs" talk with action.
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Mendoza's liveliest shopping and night-life street is the four-block stretch of Arístides Villanueva that runs from Belgrano to Paso de los Andes.
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The worst race for passing was the Russian Grand Prix, with just one overtake registered, while the liveliest was Azerbaijan's chaotic race with 42.
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Diamond and Silk, two African-American women who have become minor internet stars for their videos praising Mr. Trump, got the liveliest reception today.
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When we tried to sort out our many, many feelings about Stephen King's The Gunslinger, and resulting in one of MashReads' liveliest book arguments yet.
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As this program shows, Pennsylvania Ballet draws strength from its base in Philadelphia, which in recent years has become one of America's liveliest ballet cities.
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With our allotted time together coming to an end, I hastily turn the topic to diversity, one of tech's liveliest and at times divisive topics.
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The kitsch-retro feel of his work still manages to reveal a bit of the alienation or loneliness inside even the liveliest of his tableaux.
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It's easily the movie's liveliest scene, and the most surprising, not least because the north of England in the 1920s was hardly a gay haven.
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Paley honors every person and thing she creates by presenting them at their best, or at least their liveliest — which may be the same thing.
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Old 97's: Love the Holidays (ATO, 2018) On one of their liveliest albums, holiday festivities bring out the long-enduring alternative country band's rowdy side.
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" Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at BNY Mellon, said the summit was looking like it could be "one of the liveliest summit meetings in several decades.
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The hero of the author's family was Manuel Mena, a man Cercas's mother remembered as "the youngest, the most cheerful, the liveliest" of all her uncles.
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Fixed notions of nationality, gender and race are being deconstructed and detonated in one of the liveliest lineups of brave new plays in many a season.
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THERE was nothing wrong with Chika and Takeshi Ota's life in Osaka, Japan's liveliest city, where she worked as a shop manager and he as a driver.
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In perhaps the Blake Liveliest interview in recent memory, People and Entertainment Weekly editorial director Jess Cagle tried to compliment Lively by acknowledging that she "styles" herself.
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One of the liveliest cities in Europe, Barcelona's streets are filled with locals and tourists singing and drinking in the hours before and after the New Year.
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And if you, like me, are enticed by the idea of hearing Kid Creole's liveliest songs performed live, you may be disappointed by the absence of some favorites.
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"This will likely be the liveliest Asia session in quite some time and, for some time to come," said Matt Simpson, senior market analyst at ThinkForex in Melbourne.
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Last fall she was elected president of the student body at one of India's liveliest and most prestigious schools, Jawaharlal Nehru University, a bastion of anti-Modi dissent.
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But it's an immensely charming trifle, and in Chronicle's new edition, it's an elegant and sumptuously illustrated one — haunted by the liveliest, most inquisitive, and most glamorous of spirits.
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Most of Old Oak's shared spaces are in fact fairly empty; the liveliest area is the launderette, where residents mingle and watch TV as they wait for washing cycles.
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The Hindi term "Babu Ji" can be an honorific for a male village elder; in Alphabet City it's the animating spirit behind the liveliest dinner party on the block.
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The earliest and liveliest — painted around 1613-15, when he was at most 213 — shows him looking over his shoulder, studying his angelic face and fiery hair in a mirror.
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Economists Sharply Split Over Trade Deal Effects | It may be a political football for presidential candidates, but the liveliest debate recently about the Trans-Pacific Partnership is among blue-ribbon economists.
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Even on some of the liveliest tracks — like "Behold the Deceiver," with its weaving horns and bubbling riot of drums and percussion — the bass hardly wavers from a single incantatory phrase.
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On her liveliest, happiest, most exuberantly love-buzzed album, she's suddenly found music to match her voice, carving out an airy, cozy, summery flavor of electro-R&B all her own.
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Yet they are hands-down the liveliest element of "Selkie," Krista Knight's muddled new dramedy about domestic abuse, directed by Matt Dickson for Dutch Kills Theater Company, at the Wild Project.
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The liveliest showdown will likely be between Colombia, ranked 16th, and Poland, ranked 10th and back in the tournament for the first time since 2006 thanks to record scorer Robert Lewandowski.
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The liveliest part of "Good Profit," and arguably its reason for being, is a series of homilies in favor of free markets and against corporate welfare and special pleading of any kind.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo Much like even the liveliest prose can't wholly describe a beautiful sunset, no numbers can make Giannis Antetokounmpo look more impressive than he is when you just watch him play.
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The liveliest chapters belong to Hazel, whose ironic perceptiveness imbues the soap-operatic turns of her middle years and the tough-love crustiness passed down from her mother with layers of gravitas.
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If that whets your appetite for more poetry, you should definitely read Morgan Parker's "Magical Negro," which cements her place as one of the smartest, liveliest, most accomplished young poets working today.
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At least Jermel Johnson's sailing jumps in Balanchine's "Tarantella" were a breath of fresh air, and the rhythmic interplay between him and Mayara Pineiro was the liveliest dancing of the whole evening.
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Will Stackpole started off "Aft Agley," the liveliest and most interesting of the four works, with the steady build of a single note from almost nothing, capped with a sharp snare-drum march.
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You have to decide for yourself where 'roughness' becomes 'dirtiness' as Dempsey asserted, but watching fighters 'bend' the rules and find the loopholes will always produce the loudest and liveliest debates in fighting.
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But they know their horror, their kung fu and all the other disreputable genres that draw the Toronto festival's liveliest audiences — certainly the only ones that bring inflatable beach balls to the screenings.
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The liveliest and most agitated voice on the show belongs to the libertarian Greg Gutfeld, who delivers every rant as if the maid who spun straw into gold just guessed his true name.
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But however the category was, or is, defined, the Outsider Art Fair, compared with other fairs, seemed the least pretentious, the least focused on money, the rawest, liveliest and most full of surprises.
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Some of the liveliest scenes take place in a beat-up diner, where everyone gathers at the crack of dawn, to eat eggs and gossip, a grimly companionable demimonde that resembles an office cafeteria.
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One of the liveliest characters in the novel is the most ambiguous in status, a woman named Zarifa, a slave who became Sulayman's mistress and who largely raised Abdallah, after his mother's early death.
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But some of the liveliest debate over the coming months will likely deal with two hot-button social issues that have evolved significantly since the '70s: abortion access and the rights of transgender people.
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Explaining his rationale in his 1949 book, "Scientific Basketball," Hobson said the home run was the liveliest play in baseball, and that the same could be said of a long outside shot in basketball.
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That was by Jonathan Pryce, hitherto known as a British character actor of the eccentric stripe, who was playing the Engineer, a vicious and ambitious denizen of Saigon's underbelly and the show's liveliest figure.
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As the liveliest member of the shrinking band of ATA veterans, straight-backed and without a stick even at 100, she never missed a chance to wear her uniform, trim navy with its golden wings.
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But the thumping heart of Italian culture and business nevertheless seemed upside down this week as a mix of precautionary public ordinances, mass tourist cancellations and old-fashioned fear made Italy's liveliest city feel dead.
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Arts Liverpool Sound City Liverpool Waters, Bramley-Moore Dock, May 33 and 29 Some of Britain's liveliest pop acts will appear at this music festival, which takes place on docklands in Liverpool's rapidly regenerating center city.
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The Fox Business debate on January 14 was the liveliest of the Republican presidential contests since the first Fox News event last August, when America first experienced the spectacle of Donald Trump on a debate stage.
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Her aggression as a performer reflects the daft tenacity of someone who wants the most out of life: the biggest and most danceable beats, the bounciest and liveliest raps, the most intense modes of physical pleasure.
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Some of the liveliest writing comes from the office's antics — when they accidentally buy ribs for a funk musician who's gone vegetarian, or grumble about who gets to control the music that plays in their shared workspace.
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Healthcare technology was one of the liveliest areas of dealmaking in 2016, largely because healthcare IT companies benefited from efforts by healthcare providers to hold down costs and improve efficiency, a push partly prompted by the Affordable Care Act.
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Starting Thursday, about 30 of those who submitted the liveliest ideas will participate in Eurolab, a four-day event led by Mr. Tillmans, Mr. Koolhaas and the architectural historian Stephan Petermann during the Forum on European Culture in Amsterdam.
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Nearly 50 percent of the neighborhood is Latino, according to census figures, and about 40 percent is Asian, including many immigrants from China's Fujian province, who have helped the blocks along Eighth Avenue emerge as one of the city's liveliest Chinatowns.
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Still, over the last few years, he's been channeling that penchant for defying expectations into one of New York's liveliest techno-ish nights, the Level Party, which he and a handful of friends designed around a decidedly anything/anywhere goes philosophy.
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It's hard to put the liveliest and most memorable versions of this story out of mind when watching the exact same characters move through the familiar paces yet again, even if those paces now include the occasional martial-arts bout.
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" The liveliest number here seemingly takes inspiration from the film "The Birdcage," when Robin Williams, as the club proprietor Armand Goldman, puts his body through en encyclopedic array of motions — hip swivels, convulsions, vogueing — while calling out references: "Fosse, Fosse, Fosse!
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But at the Met Breuer she emerges as the liveliest artist in a movement that was often marred by intellectual and poetic pretensions, and whose abstracted themes of nature and metaphysics rarely appealed to American sensibilities, and still don't very much.
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It was also hard not to notice that the little dude oftentimes looked like the liveliest, most dangerous American on the pitch, beating defenders one-on-one, cutting in from all angles and delivering several almost-assists to go with his actual one.
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Fans of the older Fury will doubtless thrill to the spectacle of his younger self, and Jackson's sparring with Larson is the liveliest facet of the film, but you have to wonder what is heralded, across the industry, by such willful morphing.
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Yet such is the sheer theatrical verve of Mr. Greif's production — which features one of the liveliest, largest and busiest casts to be found Off Broadway — that the face-splitting grin it puts on your face in the first act never fades entirely.
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The band is one of the liveliest groups to emerge from London's jazz renaissance, made up of Jones on trumpet, the brothers T.J. and Femi Koleoso on bass guitar and drums, the pianist Joe Armon-Jones, and James Mollison, who plays saxophone.
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Carbo's characters, a manly park police officer with a burdensome secret and a crime scene investigator with nightmares of her own, aren't the liveliest creatures in the forest, but they perform important tasks like finding the skeleton that kicks off the mystery.
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Since it went on the air, in 1988, the station has been one of the liveliest and most credible news channels; this spring, as votes were tallied in the general election, its Web site received 16.5 billion hits in a single day.
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Bryan Stevenson's "Just Mercy," inspired the liveliest discourse; We've also read Anne-Marie Slaughter's "Unfinished Business"; "Reading Lolita in Tehran," by Azar Nafisi (which I really loved, but it didn't prompt much discussion) and "Option B," by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant (a big hit).
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"4 for 4$," the liveliest track by some margin, bends an icy set of synthesized strings around skittering metallic percussion and a keyboard whose sudden octave jump lends the beat a certain bounce, while Queen Wendy sings the praises of the 4 for $4 value meal.
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"Will the city be any fun?" is one of the most important questions, she wrote in 1958 in Fortune magazine, that a planner can ask: Where you find the liveliest downtown you will find one with the basic activities to support two shifts of foot traffic.
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Though his reputation as a curator had been built on shows of Old Masters at the Louvre and Britain's National Gallery, he set about lending the Palazzo's substantial reputation and resources to a fledgling movement that is turning the supreme Renaissance city into Italy's liveliest arena for contemporary art.
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The liveliest track besides Tharpe's "Up Above My Head" is the Aloha Serenaders' "Tomi Tomi," where the chorus races to keep up with Sol K. Bright's fleet steel guitar and tongue-twisting vocal, and right behind him comes Big Chief Henry, who never walks when he can run either.
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Not only did this closing section give us a view of Mr. Elkins at his liveliest — with strong elements of club/disco dancing and impish comedy, rhythmically exuberant — but it was also the first important gift to these remarkable dancers that the company has had in years, showing all of them in new lights.
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But on Tuesday those moments emerged as some of the liveliest of Senator Robert Menendez's often-plodding corruption trial in the federal courthouse here, as lawyers for the government and the defense jostled over the validity of the questions they had for the wife of Dr. Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Florida ophthalmologist and Mr. Menendez's co-defendant.
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One of the liveliest debates in American history, which Ellis has described before, took place in the letters Adams and Jefferson exchanged during their final 14 years of life, between 1812 and 1826 (the two men died, as legend and fact both have it, on the same day, July 4, 50 years after declaring America's independence).
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Though there's a photo montage showing race-crime headlines of the 1920s in the second act, Mr. Evans (the anointed artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theater) doesn't let the didactic side overwhelm the compellingly pulpy storytelling (based on Edna Ferber's decades-spanning novel), some of the liveliest choreography in London (by Alistair David) and the gorgeous singing of Kern's peerless ballads.
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Exhibition Review For anyone who thinks that the granular, old-fashioned neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan — the kind with ice cream parlors, stoops, barber shops, bars and tattoo joints — are fast decamping to Brooklyn, head on over to one of the area's incandescent holdouts, the East Village, where the new walk-in Swiss Institute has just opened on one of the city's liveliest streets, St. Marks Place.
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Even so, the liveliest exchange in the Q. and A. session, after Ms. Faludi read an excerpt about visiting the building in Budapest where her father, a Holocaust survivor, escaped being shot by the Nazis, centered on the less weighty issue of the author's use of pronouns in the book — "he" for every reference to her father before his surgery, "she" for every one after.
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Perhaps the liveliest of the whole bunch is an absolutely wonderful online publication called The Bitter Southerner, an irreverent Atlanta-based site that truly covers the cultural waterfront, celebrating the lunacy of genuine homegrown geniuses, lifting up the unsung heroes of the region, and peeking behind the veil of great cultural institutions, and all while holding power to account in a part of the world where power has too often lost its uneducated mind.
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I'm going to one of Germany's liveliest party streets—the Weserstraße in Berlin's Neukölln—and I'm bringing the following: A glass figurine of a hippopotamus with two big blue crystals for eyes, a salami, 2 grams of weed, a yet-to-be-assembled bedside lamp from Thailand (it's the thing that looks like a frame), How to Start a Revolution by Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, a lottery ticket, a beach ball, and the New Testament in magazine form.
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