Word: approached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council had asked that the ordinance be drafted by the end of the year. "We will have our basic approach outlined by Christmas," Balcom said yesterday. "But we have tried to go very slowly and deliberately on this, we are breaking new ground, and writing new law," he added...
Then too some businessmen suspect that asking for guidance will invite an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which disagrees strongly with the Justice Department's approach. Says SEC Enforcement Chief Stanley Sporkin, who has long been under fire by businessmen as an overly zealous regulator: "We do not have guidelines for rapists, muggers and embezzlers, and I do not think we need guidelines for corporations who want to bribe foreign officials...
...homosexual lover? (A dubious motif also suggested by the epicene revelers at the Don's supper.) The figure, mimed with sullen sensuality by Eric Adjani (Isabelle's brother), remains cryptic and annoyingly gratuitous. He does, however, make a perfect emblem for Losey's whole approach. This Don Giovanni deserves the old line once used by Dorothy Parker to describe the Alps: beautiful but dumb...
Jenkins is unique among the few top-notch violinists that jazz has produced. Stephane Grappelli and Joe Venuti have been the instrument's two most successful improvisors, each using a fluid instrumental technique that can approach the offhand fluency of a saxophone or trumpet. Jenkins is the most violinistic violinist in improvised music; his effective use of double-stops (two notes bowed together), rapid bowing, and pizzicato techniques places him much closer to the classical violin tradition than any of his predecessors in jazz...
...best-known exponents of AACM art are Anthony Braxton and the members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. The music on Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America has more to do with the sophisticated conceptual experiments of Braxton than with the visceral, intuitive, and often theatrical approach of the Art Ensemble...