Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finale, marked Allegro fuocoso--Calmato, recalled some of Bernstein and Gould's jazzy forays in `classical' music as it travelled along in an odd meter. This movement produced a new but equally otherwordly sound bolstered by the BSO's surprisingly powerful (in this instance) brass section. The net effect of the symphony, as full of fresh ideas today as it must have seemed in 1959, was not bemusement but rather awe and fascination...
...weeks on postproduction, including 11th-hour reshoots. Universal publicists insisted on calling these scenes "snippets," but by then defensiveness was rampant. At the film's press junket, each journalist was subject to two security checks before being allowed to enter the screening room. While the film played, edgy Universal brass stood along the walls of the theater to monitor the crowd's reactions. "Please," a studio publicist jokingly begged a reporter before the junket began, "just shoot...
...lamb chops and crab meat salad today alongside President Clinton in the White House. Taking in the spread, O'Grady cracked: "You'll understand, Mr. President, if I don't eat the salad." Flanked by the fighter pilot's parents, grandparents, brother and sister, Clinton and the top Pentagon brass paid tribute to the pilot's courage and to the readiness of the Marines who rescued him last Thursday. "He gave us something more precious than we can ever give him: a reminder of what is very best about our country," the President said...
...listen to and dance to-its hard to avoid moving your body-and think, "Gee, that was fun!" The ska sound centers around a some-what sped-up reggae beat, carnival-type rhythms, frequently humorous lyrics, large bands (sometimes more than seven people) and lots of bass and brass...
...analyst. That kind of volatility, however, flustered the old-line Baring executives who wanted to put the derivatives business under the watchful eye of one of their risk-averse sales experts. "There was no one in Barings top management who understood derivatives," says a former Barings manager. The top brass was weary, but the money being made kept the bank from pulling out of the game altogether. "Barings' problem was that they wanted to be just a little bit pregnant," says an equity manager in Hong Kong. By 1993 Heath had resigned and the Tokyo operation had been through four...