Word: brass
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...Foster, at the last minute, was thrust into the role. Last week the show opened on Broadway, and Foster was basking in the limelight. As the small-town girl who comes to New York City in the 1920s, she's got the full package: girlish gawkiness and Broadway brass, the legs and the lungs. Foster is a big reason the show is just about the cutest thing to hit Broadway since Annie's dimples, with perkily retro songs by Jeanine Tesori and clever staging by director Michael Mayer, who has removed some of the silliness from the rather bizarre...
...second movement ländler was appropriately rustic, while the rondo-burlesque, taken at an exciting but never hurried tempo, culminated in an electrifying outburst at its conclusion. In between the faster fugato sections were heavenly trumpet solos. While the third movement showcased the brass, the strings came through in the last movement, sustaining the intensity of the long phrases until the very end. Bernstein described the final page of the symphony as “the closest we have ever come, in any work of art, to experiencing the very act of dying. The slowness of this page...
...fact is, two years after the merger was announced, AOL Time Warner's top brass is being forced to prove the decision was not a mistake. Despite its powerful brand and unrivaled global member base of 34 million, the AOL division has seen its once stratospheric subscriber growth slow, its ad revenue fall and its international operations bleed money. The much ballyhooed broadband move--in which networked homes will enjoy high-speed connections to movies and music whenever they want--is off to a rocky start. Any delay is crucial to consumers eagerly anticipating the broadband revolution, because...
Over the years the size of both the venues and the band grew, until she was touring with an entire brass section. But eventually all that company must have gotten to the girl who thrives on making a personal connection with her audience. So out she went, on the road alone again, like the old days. This time instead of an intimate coffeehouse set for a few uninitiated, she commanded the attention of an audience of thousands...
...Christopher Morris' photos of General Tommy Franks' Central Command in Tampa, Fla. [NATION, March 18], left a lot of you wondering about the attire of the top brass. "Isn't it ludicrous for Franks and his staff to be wearing combat boots and fatigues while sitting around their air-conditioned offices?" asked a Floridian. "Are they expecting to be rushed to the front?" An Arizonan noted, "The camouflage uniforms and combat boots 7,700 miles from the front lines smack of comic opera and macho imagery. Franks and his men appear ready to pick up arms and meet the enemy...