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...doing, how close to the performance it is. Sometimes I have to dance for six hours. That’s hard. I think the learning process is the hardest. You have to be standing and learning all day, so it’s a lot of brainwork. When I’m working on Balanchine, the stagers and ballet masters tell me, for example, “Use your hips more,” but I know now what the Balanchine ballets should look like, I have the vision, the image. THC: What is your work and thought process like...
Because it's easy to use, you could easily think of Pandora as simple Internet radio. But it's much more than that, and, like the performance of a great musician, the exhausting brainwork of the service is disguised by its smooth operation...
...acceptable and what is not, judgments that should belong to the moral-responsible realm fall to that of sensational empathy, of momentary response. Discussion is reduced to jolts & of electric horror and freezes instantly as attitude -- as racial stereotype. Society becomes a war of videos, in which orderly brainwork, any reasoning over rights and wrongs, is impossible. Cosby gave way on American television screens to endlessly reduplicated, hall-of-mirrors replays of the Rodney King video and the truck-driver video: the truck-driver video being the one shot from a helicopter when a group of blacks dragged a white...
Originally asked to come to the Center for International Affairs in 1976, Basheer postponed the fellowship until he felt he could leave the Egyptian cabinet. The year abroad will serve as an opportunity "to do some brainwork and writing," Basheer said...
Other players say the body English, the nudging, gunching and infinite alternations of the ways to flip the flipper and score points off the thumper-bumper make the game a combination of, say, chess (brainwork), hockey (physical coordination) and lovemaking (sensitivity). Concludes Roger C. Sharpe, author of a new, definitive book called Pinball: "It takes years of practice every...