Word: baton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tour of the United States, Han's accomplishments range from graduating from The Juilliard School at 18 to playing at a gala event for President Nelson Mandela last season. During the opening strains of Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Han fixed his gaze upon the baton, bobbing his head slightly and effortlessly threading his melody into that woven by the full orchestra. Every note in the cascading arpeggios of the concerto resounded under Han's steady fingertips, and the interchange between pianist and orchestra was seamless. Pausing to wipe his brow, cheeks and hands during every...
...kind of feeling that words could hardly frame. At Boston's Symphony Hall, Conductor Erich Leinsdorf laid down his baton, raised it again for the funeral march from the Eroica. On a Washington street corner, a blind Negro woman plucked at the strings of her guitar, half-singing, half-weeping a dirge: "He promised never to leave me." And on Commerce Street in Dallas, in an incident little noted at the time but to assume later significance, Jack Ruby silently closed down his strip-tease joint, the Carousel...
...effect from two jolts from a stun gun and threw off several officers who tried to "swarm" him, a relatively benign technique used to subdue a violent suspect. Nor did it show that after all that, King was charging directly at the officer who first whacked him with a baton. But the videotape became one of those vehicles of Herodotus, carrying at its core a mythic truth that fetched back centuries: white authority brutalizing a black...
...family's small apartment in downtown Pristina, Alban Neziri, 23, coolly, methodically narrates his harrowing story. He says he was arrested last February as a suspected founding member of the K.L.A. and during his 10 months in prison was repeatedly tortured. "At the beginning, they beat me with plastic batons on the bottom of my feet," Neziri says. "That lasted 15 to 20 minutes. After that, they began to hit me on my kidneys. They do that with the point of the baton. After that, they began on my hands." By the end of the two-to-three-hour "interrogation...
...lean into the curve, you notice people with stopwatches ahead. It's much too early to pass the baton, and you didn't ever remember someone being on the track to get your split time. As you near the accountants of time, you see frowns upon their shaking heads. You wonder what could be wrong, but you keep running. As you pass the accountants, they yell to you, "Not good enough!" Fallen veterans on the field wave fingers of "I told you so," and your own confidence slackens. Your quadriceps begin that low burning feeling and then you notice that...