Word: brassiere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happens. No sooner has the land been transferred than Larry feels supplanted, staring out the window for hours when he isn't drinking his way through "car rides all over Creation." At first, Ginny and Rose normalize his behavior. "He has nothing else to do," says Ginny, while her brassier sister offers that "perfecting that death's-head stare of his is going to be his life's work from now on, so we better get used...
...TAKE SEASONS FOR AN ORchestra to reflect the skills and tastes of a new conductor. Older players have to retire, and new section principals be appointed; in rehearsal, players must learn to deliver, say, a richer string sound or a brassier brass. That's why what is going on in San Francisco is creating such a buzz in the classical-music world. It has been just six months since Michael Tilson Thomas inherited the baton from the sober Swede Herbert Blomstedt, but already the San Francisco Symphony has undergone a transformation. Woodwinds dance merrily, the brass resonates nobly...