Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British music has long been treated like a poor relation in the world's concert halls-the sick man of Europe. German, Italian, French and Russian compositions make up the bulk of the standard repertory. But British music-with a rich tradition stretching from Tudor church composers like William Byrd to innovative moderns like Peter Maxwell Davies-is patronized as a national school, a sort of cultural Toby-jug collection, of interest chiefly to natives and diehard Anglophiles elsewhere...
...uncontrolled sentences, in roman numerals. Let the historians worry about the economic and social forces that shaped the world. Halberstam wants the men who sculpt that world to their liking. Maybe those men don't change the world, but Halberstam thinks they do and his work--in its inevitable bulk--challenges anyone to think otherwise...
...larries do the bulk work, in this case a lot of hand smearing of stucco on elaborate stairs and platforms, a lot of painting, a lot of sealing cracks with muslin and Elmer's glue. The techies are left to chip away at details the rest of the week, assemble platforms into superstructures, dream up fanciful gels and filters for lighting--and, Thursday night, to dim the houselights and see what they have...
...face the condo issue in any event, if not by prospective purchasers angry at the restrictions than by tenants upset at eroding protections. And the indication from Tuesday's vote is that politically they would have been worse off to ignore the tenants. David Sullivan--who draws the vast bulk of his support from tenants--was for the second election in a row the city's most popular progressive politician. All five candidates who backed the condo law--Sullivan, Saundra Graham, Francis H. Duehay '55, David Wylie, and Vellucci--were reelected, and the CCA candidate seen as most ambivalent about...
...Wolf to win a seat, she would need to overtake Graham or Vellucci as transfer votes are distributed when weak candidates are eliminated later in the week. Graham is expected, however, to pick up the bulk of number one votes cast for Alvin Thompson, the only other Black in the race, when he is eliminated, and Vellucci should win many transfers from Walter Sullivan's surplus...