Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ordinary earthlings (with a few hundred thousand dollars to spare) to vacation in outer space. For more than a year, the American firm Space Voyages has been taking reservations for sub-orbital shuttle rides - price tag, $98,000 - and expects to launch in 2002. Further, NASA's top brass has urged Washington in recent years to allow civilian forays into outer space, including private rides on the space shuttle. Boeing, the primary developer of the International Space Station, is also leading the consortium to build the hotel, and would not rule out that it could be used to house vacationing...
...that performance in the 1980s, all the instruments except for the brasses and a few drums were lined up along the side of the pool. The brass players were in the pool, a few drums were floated on kickboards and the student conductor sat on an inner-tube...
...problems start out in the orchestra. First of all, synchrony is an issue: at points in the show, the instrumentalists are noticeably not together. And the brass section…it's nothing a little practice wouldn't hurt, but try to remember that even if the audience doesn't see, you, they really are going to hear...
...close scrutiny. But the astonishing character study that dominates the first half begins to unravel when the film, inexplicably, changes its focus from Wigand to Bergman. Just as Wigand is entering his darkest period, becoming psychologically unhinged, the film cuts away to Bergman and his struggles with the brass at CBS. The heroic, moral air that builds up around Bergman in the last third almost suffocates the intricate and brilliant tale before it and threatens to turn the film into a full-blown, us-vs.-them morality tale...
...University's top brass is always drawn from the ranks of tenured professors, and so a shortage of tenured women keeps Harvard's glass ceiling in place...