Word: balalaikas
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Early Sunday morning, with the numbed purposefulness of the bereaved, Wagner took a helicopter back to the mainland, rushing ahead of the news to tell his three daughters, the eldest age 17, of their mother's death. Three days later, as a balalaika dirge played, the family and 60 friends buried...
...compare the sounds of some other orchestras with that of the Boston Symphony. Or maybe you've bought every Jean' Pierre Rampal record ever made, and you're wondering if he can really play like that outside a recording studio. Or perhaps you're dying to hear what a balalaika orchestra sounds like (pretty much like no other you've ever heard before...
...electronic keyboard device that plays prerecorded tapes. Things perk up considerably with the first picture, "The Gnome," a succession of subterranean squeaks and giggles that resemble a band of tipsy trolls frolicking beneath Frankenstein's castle. As for "The Old Castle," it sounds like a caravan of balalaika players pursuing an Arabian shawm virtuoso...
...cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Massey worked her way from seamstress to chorus girl to operatic leads in Vienna, where at 25 she was signed by an MGM talent scout. In 1939 she played a sultry Russian singer as Nelson Eddy's co-star in the Hollywood musical Balalaika, later cut up on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies (1943-44) and fooled with the Marx Brothers in Love Happy...
...troupe of folk dancers that Central Park was safe. Not a bicycle thief was in sight when Patrolman Murray Trelford and eight of his colleagues challenged the 30 Russians to a Frisbee game on the Great Lawn. Then they all linked arms in a Russian folk dance. While a balalaika was strummed, Igor Moiseyev said, "Now we know the police are men with human qualities...