Word: bellowses
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"Nobody is questioning the value of continuing to teach the great works of Western culture," insists CIV Proponent Thomas Wasow, dean of undergraduate studies. The fear that just such a question was being raised, however, brought bellows of protest from academic conservatives like Education Secretary William Bennett. A devout classicist...
It is the extremes of the season that get him down, wear him down to a frazzle of somnambulant grinning. Jews and Christians sing out their lungs this time of year, bear candles against the abbreviated light. Even secular humanists find a way to hold the dark at bay. Captain...
The only thing that mars these otherwise solid performances is the actors' tendency to adopt a certain gesture or mannerism and repeat it over and over, as if Director Fred Pletcher had told his cast that nervous tics make characters more human. As a result, Raphael slicks his hair back...
The lift-off was recorded on a photographic plate; the bulb of a mounted bellows camera was put into the hand of a North Carolina surfman, who was told when to squeeze. His timing was perfect, but Wilbur was too excited to punch his stopwatch and had to estimate the...
Britton begins to play, with the counter-intuitive, complicated movements that make the Uilleann pipes so damnably difficult: he presses on the bag with his left arm, periodically refilling it by pumping on the bellows with his right, occasionally hitting his regulator keys with the right wrist while simultaneously playing...