Word: cues
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Rather than cue the orchestra as conductors normally do by calling out a measure number, Barenboim would whistle the important melodic phrase. "It’s just a more intuitive way of going into the music," Tines said...
SPEAKING OF POLICE, the Cornell Daily Sun reports: "Police Prepared for Violence." Wait, is there a threat on campus? Well, no. But there have been a lot of school shootings recently, and, well, you can never be too prepared. Cue the guy with the gun: “We have carefully-devised, well-rehearsed plans affecting the health and safety of the community,” said Chief Curtis Ostrander, director of Cornell University Police Department. “Because we use firearms, we train for incidents and emergencies during the summer, when students aren’t here...
BETHLEHEM, Pa.—Maybe someone has finally figured out a way to stop Clifton Dawson: cue the Lehigh defense.But the way to slow down the rest of the No. 21 Harvard football team? That still went unanswered on Saturday, as the Crimson (3-0, 1-0 Ivy) squeaked by the Mountain Hawks (1-3, 0-0 Patriot) by a 35-33 score in front of 10,680 fans at Goodman Stadium in Bethlehem, Pa.Although Dawson was held relatively in check—he gained just 94 yards on 31 carries—he did move into...
...Shopping period is like academic speed-dating: all of the perks without any of the commitment. The opportunity to shop, instead of pre-registering, grants students useful information about courses—the stuff that the CUE Guide cannot provide. Shopping “Introduction to Linguistics,” for example, provided me with all sorts of firsthand knowledge about how hot the professor is (good morning, Professor Nevins...
Classes which overflow during shopping week, the ones where 300 students show up to the first lecture, are generally the ones for which the professors received the highest CUE ratings the previous year. Literature and Arts A-53, “Athens to Jerusalem,” is a prime example. The course in its previous offering was attended by only 10 students, but very high ratings for Professors Simon and Machinist caused this number to explode with hundreds attending the first lecture...