Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eschewing conventional techniques in his campaign to become vice chair of the Undergraduate Council, candidate Adam D. Taxin '93 this week invited most of the body's top brass and all the first-year representatives to three separate "informational" dinner meetings at his native Quincy House...
...aggressor and perhaps force several Arab allies now in the U.S. camp over to Saddam's side, or at least to the sidelines. Following a series of war games held by the general staff in an underground command bunker in the central part of the country, Israel's brass concluded that for now, the consequences of an Iraqi attack on Israel would be less severe than the political and military fallout from a first strike on Iraq...
...Nesbitt explains his fashion philosophy, he is joined by graduate student Kareen Obydol. Originally from Guadaloupe but also a transplanted Parisian, she is dressed in a black denim jacket and shorts ensemble. Wearing black sandals, black sunglasses, long beaded earrings and a brass ear cuff, she sports an elaborate braided hairstyle...
...longest and most richly textured of jazz compositions -- a suite of 18 sections comprising nearly 4,000 bars of music, with a performance time of more than two hours. By jazz standards, the forces required to perform it are almost Mahlerian: a 31-member band with full complements of brass and saxes, plus such normally nonswinging instruments as piccolo and contrabass clarinet. The work was played once in the composer's lifetime, but in a truncated form that left him despairing and furious. The score was put aside, abandoned...
...surprisingly, the senior military brass is not fond of Shchit. Most of the movement's leaders, including Urazhtsev, have been taken off active duty and expelled from the party. Now many officers keep their allegiance to the new organization secret. Says Nikolai Moskovchenko, 35, a major removed from active duty earlier this year for supporting the reformers: "The majority of soldiers and officers are with...