Word: brass
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Even less can be said in favor of the brass. Muffled and shy in the Brahms, the entire horn section produced less power than any single counterpart of the legendary Chicago Symphony Orchestra of the 1970s. This absence of inspiration was particularly disappointing in the finale, but by this time Tate had ceased trying to goad the BSO to action. Whether from frustration or disinterest, his take on the Brahms offered few surprises in phrasing and even fewer variations in dynamics and tempi. Only the mellifluous soli of the winds merited much remembrance...
Back then it took Hollywood a while to realize what kind of acting Stewart was capable of. MGM director W.S. Van Dyke II pegged him as "unusually usual." To the brass at Metro, who signed Stewart in 1935, the label meant he was a sensitive fellow with zero sex appeal--not the stuff of celebrity. So he was made to sob through After the Thin Man (pssst: he dunnit), shuffle through Born to Dance (he wasn't), swivel on skates in Ice Follies...
...tobacco industry and fearful of antagonizing the industry's tens of millions of addicted customers, has allowed the cigarette to remain our most deadly but least regulated consumer product. Its manufacturers, meanwhile, doggedly denied that the ever mounting medical evidence against them constituted conclusive proof, yet insisted, with ultimate brass, that smokers had been amply warned of the health risks they might be running--and got the Supreme Court essentially to agree with them. As a result, Americans have prematurely lost 4 million collective years of life annually in our worst, if routinely accepted, public-health scandal...
...that she will leave the ABC wake-up show in September but will continue to contribute to other ABC News programs. Although rumor had it that she was sidelined because GMA has been whipped by NBC's Today in the ratings for a year and a half, the network brass said the choice was all hers. At the same time, recollections of Lunden's many interviews--and hairstyles--over the years quickly gave way to speculation about her replacement. The top contenders...
...Paris, he portrayed the new agreement between Russia and NATO as the gateway to a golden era of East-West cooperation. In the Hague the next day, he and the assembled leaders of Europe marked the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan--the keystone of it all--with brass bands, dinners and speeches. The next 50 years, said Clinton, should produce "a Europe that is democratic, at peace and undivided for the first time in history...