Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saturday's audience--which included top brass from Mass. Hall, members of the Corporation and Board of Overseers as well as prominent alumni and donors--responded favorably to the speech and seemed overcome by the breadth of Rudenstine's 16-page lecture, which he has composed off-and-on over the past 18 months...
...different scenes; on several occasions, the music and steps clash instead of blending together. During one of the most sweeping and dynamic moments in the music, Juliet stands unmoving, simply staring out the window. During the Capulets' ballroom scene, against the darkly throbbing beat maintained by the brass, the dancers go through a ridiculous melange of half-flamenco, half karate-chop arm movements, shattering the image created by the music...
Actual residents of the area may have a different perspective, but as far as much of the rest of the country is concerned, Chapel Hill was too busy truckin' along to grab the brass ring. Scene pioneers Superchunk might shift 30,000 units now instead of 3,000, but in return they have become small fish in a pond where A&R sharks actually say things like "shifting major units."(Yes, Kurt Cobain wrote a song about this. Move along...
...Kofi Annan with a billion-dollar handshake (in case the U.N. should collapse for want of Time-Warner shares). Even the Pentagon got jittery when the Oslo accord tried to prise a pile of landmines from its stiff little fingers: We're the world's policemen, sulked the top brass, and if we can't play with our exploding toys, we're going home...
...What of McKinney's counter-allegation ? that the charges against him are racially motivated? Mark Thompson, TIME's Pentagon correspondent, says that one won't fly, even though top brass wish it were true. "The Army would dearly have loved to avoid this case, which involves one of its most senior officers," says Thompson. "But now that there are six accusers, it would be hard for the investigating officer to recommend anything other than a court-martial." And when McKinney's lawyer threatened to go public with other cases of harassment in a tit-for-tat retaliation, today's outcome...