Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Celebrity Series artists are generous this year--Ohlsson gave four well-chosen encores, beginning with a sansculottes Revolutionary etude, and continuing with a glib. graceful Mazurka (Op. 30 No. 4), an ostentatiously fast and harrowing C-sharp Etude (Op. 10 No. 4), and a morsel of Scriabine farfallonery, the Etude Op. 49 No. 3. In effect these encores were four excellent piano lessons...
...still difficult to see it as a triumphal moment when they finally run off together after a dramatic scene as they are leaving Billy's funeral. Their story is a great love affair, but it is also an incestuous escape from the outside world, which with few exceptions had chosen not to help the Johnson children in the past: "Me and Jean, we're cutting out of the whole deal," Ray declares...
...general musical theme. The beginning of "Big Star" sounds oddly like Paul Simon, and parts of "Everything Is Cool" are vaguely death-metalish. But for the most part, Reel Big Fish stick to kinds of rhythms and melodies generally associated with ska, and they perform well in their chosen style...
...make range from extremely rough approximations to wild guesses. Aczel, however, does not even attempt to give values for all of the variables in his calculation. Instead, he gives rough approximations for two of the variables in the equation and then lumps the remaining terms together in an arbitrarily chosen, "extremely remote," one in a trillion probability for intelligent life occurring on a planet that lies within its star's habitable zone...
...held its first large public meeting on the project--a surprising move given its history of keeping plans close to the vest until much further along in the development process, and the limited specifics available at that time. They had no architect, no design drawing and no firm site chosen, but Harvard officials proceeded anyway...