Word: brasses
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...relaxed tempo that suited the melancholy chords and the march-like id'ee fixe of the piece's opening movement. While the technique of the string players received most of the attention in the Rachmani-noff, the Tchaikovsky incorporated multiple solo parts highlighting the wood-winds and brass...
Amid the marble steps, wood finishing, brass-handled lockers and newly painted walls, some Barker denizens say they are a little surprised to see rodents in the midst...
...hardly a secret to the top Soviet army brass and political bosses," Baranets told TIME, "that the U.S.S.R. assisted Iraq in developing its chemical and bacteriological weapons. According to some data, several extremely well-paid Russian chemical-warfare experts still work in Iraq under assumed names." When sanctions first went into effect, says Baranets, the Russian government shut off shipments to countries on the U.N. embargo list. Later, "controls weakened and slackened, while economic considerations took over the political ones. As of the second half of 1993, Russia resumed sending major military supplies to the Middle East. They used...
...This one could run on the History Channel: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). A balanced, almost documentary view of winter 1941, including the very distinct possibility that FDR and his top brass knew about it ahead of time. On the American side, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards and Joseph Cotten as Secretary of State Stimson, and S? Yamamura and Tatsuya Mihashi manning the aerial battering ram. A full complement of directors, one American and two Japanese, make this a true learner for those whose schoolbook days are mercifully over...
There probably aren't, so what is Anastasia's target audience? "We wanted our story to appeal to adults," says Mechanic, "particularly women who are most likely to take their kids to the movies." To keep Bluth from wandering too far into his trademark whimsy, the Fox creative brass kept tight reins on script and character development. They also insisted that he and Goldman give up their old-fashioned Rostrum camera and use Silicon Graphics computers in the studio Fox built for them in Phoenix. Says Goldman: "They pulled Don and me into the 21st century, kicking and screaming...