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  • While Patricia Risley is a slightly underpowered Dinah, her "garden" aria is heartbreaking.

    Catching Up to Bernstein Heidi Waleson 2010

  • Britton was duly rewarded with a four-month sentence, served in Risley Remand Centre and Stafford Prison.

    Ballardian » “Enthusiasm for the mysterious emissaries of pulp”: an interview with David Britton (the Savoy interviews, part 2a) 2010

  • The construction of our BEPO reactor was carried out by our newly founded Production Group under the charge of Sir Christopher Hinton, which had centred itself in Risley in Lancashire.

    The Miracle of Atomic Energy 1959

  • Shakespeare had Henry Wriothesley (pronounced "Risley"), Michelangelo had Lorenzo de Medici to support their work, and our Theatre had Tift County and the City of Tifton.

    Tifton Gazette Homepage 2010

  • Wriothesley, pronounced "Risley" was Shakespeare's patron.

    British Blogs 2009

  • As Dinah, mezzo-soprano Patricia Risley provides a vivid presence (appearing as a ghost except for the flashbacks), though her voice occasionally has trouble cutting through the orchestra.

    'A Quiet Place,''Intermezzo' Show NYC Opera At Its Best AP 2010

  • Mary Risley, who runs Tante Marie's Cooking School in North Beach and eats at A16 about once a month, says a big part of the restaurant's charm is co-owner and wine director Shelley Lindgren, who greets everyone by name.

    A16 2010

  • So we pulled out the original research and discovered that Hart and Risley made monthly visits, each lasting one hour, to selected homes of 2- and 3-year-olds and counted the words, over a course of 36 months.

    John Merrow: E.D. Hirsch, Linda Katz, and Mike Smith Weigh in on Reading Development John Merrow 2011

  • This measure, which Hart and Risley called “extra talk non-business talk,” taken when children were three years old, had a 77-percent correlation with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test at third grade.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • Todd Hart and Betty Risley compared middle-class families to families living at or below the poverty line by tape-recording the interactions of forty-two families from the time the children were nine months old until they were three years old.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

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