Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backs it with electronically altered vocals and a variety of funk sounds, which recall everything from Caribbean metal drums to a fart. Spaceman Jonzun, himself, is credited with the following: lead vocals, computer programming, electro drums, space bass, space-vocals, sound effects, synthesized keyboards, background vocals, string and brass synthesizers. And the three other band members do stuff as well...
...railroad to auto racing with formula Fords. Village festivals include Tyrolean wrestling matches, boatmen's jousting on the Salzach River, and the special day when the cattle are driven down for the winter from the high Alpine pastures. The festivities are invariably accompanied by the oompah of local brass bands in native costume; the Austrian Tourist Board claims that there are more such bands than there are villages in their country...
...populist style was born in 1904 in Lebanon, Ohio. He was a set designer and stage manager before he took his theatrical flair into industrial design. One of Wright's earliest and handsomest pieces, designed in the mid-'30s, was a "corn set" made of chromium-plated brass and consisting of a 5¼-in.-high melted-butter pitcher and salt and pepper shakers on a tray. His first popular hit was an assortment of spun aluminum accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst of breathless feature stories...
...waiting for John Paul under a forest of umbrellas in a vacant airfield outside the city. When the Silesians spotted the Pope stepping from the papal helicopter, they let loose with a boisterous chorus of Sto Lat (May You Live a Hundred Years), all but drowning out a brass band of black-suited miners...
...During the riots, all of the top brass at Harvard knew the phone number at City Hall. We were there for them...