Word: brassed
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...fairly blazes in the original, delay your eye as it tries to get into the picture. More obstacles are built into the space between the carpet and the figures at the end of the room. There is a white pitcher on the table, a sky-blue chair with gleaming brass tack heads, and finally the voluptuous mass of a bass viol lying on the floor...
...ever there was a monument to the Western Canon, Paine Hall is it. High above the audience, in proud brass letters, the names of the Great Composers--Beethoven, Schubert, Bach--remind us that we are in a temple of culture, to be enlightened by the best music from the best minds in history. The literal presence of these great names only emphasized the question posed by last Sunday's concert: is that tradition still alive, and does John Harbison belong...
...coming out of the singers' mouths, though the instruments' blasts couldn't be any clearer. In much of the first act, Blair's fine but tentative voice does not reach the audience with the strength it should, and it's hard to blame her. Outdoing an army of brass, wind, reeds, and percussion is no easy task, especially since the Agassiz has no pit; instead, the orchestra is crammed between the stage and the first row of seats. When intelligible, the Citizens of the Tower of London are at best satisfactory. Though their swinging and swaying could have been sharper...
...charged with drunkenly groping a young female colleague during a commercial-airline flight. An additional 20 or so sailors were also on board--including a Navy chaplain with the rank of lieutenant commander--who apparently did nothing to intervene, despite the woman's screams. Further unwelcome news for Navy brass: some two dozen midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy are under investigation for alleged marijuana...
...Zippo lighter to a peasant hut; a Saigon official shooting, on camera, a suspected Viet Cong terrorist through the head. But before the war escalated into a staple item on the nightly news, a much smaller conflict had played itself out in South Vietnam. This one pitted U.S. military brass and members of the Kennedy Administration against a small group of young print reporters assigned to cover a communist guerrilla insurrection in an Asian country that most of their readers back home could not locate...