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Jiro Mochizuki, Agence Shot for The Wall Street Journal Aida's teppanyaki of diced beef filet served with two sauces, slivers of roast garlic and a shaved salad.
Exploring Sushi on the Seine Nidra Poller 2011
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For many people, the word "opera" conjures up visions of Wagnerian helmets and "Aida's" elephants.
New American operas are going the way of smaller venues, on smaller scales 2010
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He's a good young performer in his "Rent" - rock style, but you're not quite convinced that this Radames has the depth that accounts for Aida's falling in love with the man who enslaved her.
Star Over Egypt 2008
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The show's darker and more dramatic mood hits a peak of intensity with "The Gods Love Nubia," Aida's lament for her vanquished homeland, sung in gospel mode by Headley with shattering power.
Star Over Egypt 2008
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For example after a stay at the commune with Bertie where, instead of going to school, he is tutored by the residents in Marxist philosophy, Frank goes to his much more conventional Aunt Aida's house where he watches the television for the first time.
Archive 2008-03-01 Kate 2008
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He spent the first decade of his career mostly known as John's ( "Quiz Show") brother and, occasionally, Aida's ( "Angie") cousin.
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For example after a stay at the commune with Bertie where, instead of going to school, he is tutored by the residents in Marxist philosophy, Frank goes to his much more conventional Aunt Aida's house where he watches the television for the first time.
Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: Unfortunate naming Kate 2008
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"These things" VALENTINA tattooed on her right forearm, CHAUKE on her leftwere all she would admit to that day, despite Aida's persistent teasing of Valentina through the rest of the interview with the repetition of the question "You didn't cut tinhlanga?"
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Nor would a young woman in Aida's positionunmarried, and looking after an aging mother as well as four children and an infant grandsonhave forgotten for a moment the matrilineal community that embraced her on the day of her birth.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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But Aida's narrow reliance on her xilungu name for this purpose reveals an important shift in this form of female remembering more broadly, a shift that was also apparent in Rosalina Malungana's wistful comment, in her story of her clan name, that if she were a man, she would have traveled to "Xipilongo" like her uncle Dane to search for paternal kin.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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