Word: broods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is something so tenebrous, so portentous, so downright antagonistic about Alfred Schnittke's music that it is almost a wonder anybody either performs it or listens to it. In Schnittke's dark, Russo-Germanic artistic universe, strings do not soar, they brood; woodwinds do not chirp, they protest; brass does not shine, it glowers. Created in the caldron of Central Europe, his music speaks of epic battles and terrible defeats; it is Kutuzov and Napoleon at Borodino, Von Paulus at Stalingrad. Why, then, is it suddenly so popular...
...safety net to catch Kerrigan's fall in Detroit was this proud family. But how does anyone cope with the anger generated by a vicious attack? The Scotvolds say simply that she doesn't brood: "She doesn't have time to dwell on what's happened. Maybe after the Olympics are over." Wylie adds that she may be dissociating herself from the blow to protect her concentration. Kerrigan is, as usual, circumspect. "It's hard to know what to feel right now," she says. Admitting to watching the developments on TV, she quips that it is all a form...
...plenty estranged. The girl is annoyed with her father (Terry Kinney), resentful of her stepmother (Meg Tilly) and jealous of the woman's attentions to her own small son (Reilly Murphy). Why, Marti might almost believe -- as so many teens do of their own families -- that her broody brood is a pack of soulless zombies from another planet. But paranoia is merely another word for self-preservation; and Marti, who never hides her raw feelings, is just the person to detect the wholesale poddifying of her family. By the end, and for the noblest cause -- saving the earth -- she will...
Christian legends are different. Lucifer vaingloriously sought to overturn the regime in heaven and waged war against God's loyalists. Defeated by the Archangel Michael, the angel who would be God was cast into his inferno, to brood in the darkness, "hatching vain empires." With him went about a third of the heavenly host, a horde of fallen angels...
...life-size nutcracker. Marie and the Nutcracker are then carried off to the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy, where they are entertained by dancers of every country and candy imaginable. The dancers are talented, notable performers including Arabian Coffee and Mother Ginger in drag with her brood hidden under her skirt...