Word: crispness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DAVE, A suitemate, escapes this deprivation. Hulking and sweaty after soccer, he hunches over a row of glass vials, peering carefully at the bird bones clinking inside. Making a choice he pours a crisscross pile of bones into my hand. They're a creamy pebble grey, polished and crisp. Dave explains the significance of each tiny detail as I tick a fingernail across notches and etched grooves. My fingers and eyes draw me into a miniature world of texture--a jagged cave about a millimeter across signifies a breast bone; a ball-bearing sized nub, an ankle...
...found in Merimee's gritty original novella -- was her conventional, boring bourgeois self, and the reserved British performers did not really get the sleaze factor right. This should have been Carmen: Beyond Thunderdome. Still, it boasted a brilliant performance by Mezzo Sally Burgess in the title role and some crisp conducting from Paul Daniel...
...bright, crisp Midwestern day in 1997, and the small-town parade could be something out of Ronald Reagan's childhood scrapbook. Main Street is lined with townspeople applauding as the baton twirlers, marching bands, basketball squads and quilting clubs make their way past. But the clapping abruptly stops as some bright red banners come into view. Adorning them are the faces of two heroes from history: Abraham Lincoln and Lenin...
...Well, good luck. You'll need it." Then the One pauses, and as the grease plays delicately out into the crisp Cambridge air, he adds "By the way, could I xerox a copy of Feldstein-Garcia...
...blend the changing cast and the varied talents into a unified voice. He drills them on breathing and on the peculiarities of sung pronunciation. At verse 9 of Psalm 37, he interjects, "This is my favorite: 'For evildoers shall be cut off. ' With a big t before the 'off.' Crisp as a knife." He is relentlessly attentive to the details that weave together the different parts: "Everybody, on the bottom of page 3, let's make that a dotted quarter note with an eighth rest, so we can hear the soprano entrance...