Word: denting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court order confiscating the entire press run of the France Dimanche issue; the court tongue-lashed the photographer for his "veritable aggression," and the newspaper for its "intolerable invasion of the private life of the Philipe family." Though the $8,000 in damages will probably not make an appreciable dent in France Dimanche's pocketbook, it certainly serves notice on the French press that the value of privacy is going...
...sound track of the film, consisting mainly of candid tape-recordings and snippets from interviews, reflects the same kind of directness. Some volunteers speak of their failures and frustrations, of their frequent inability to produce the slightest dent on traditional village life. Others have a more optimistic tale. Above all, one receives a sense of complete candor, of an attempt portray the actuality of Peace Corps life in India...
...scant notion of how to get rid of it. The funds are piled up in nonconvertible foreign currencies from Conakry to Colombo. "We have used all the money we can in every way we can," confessed a State Department official last week. "We are no longer making even a dent in the accumulation. We've got to do more...
Paderewski, who sported a shock of golden-red hair that would dent a hedge clipper, toured with an entourage in a private Pullman car. Yet he was so insecure about his playing that he practiced 17 hours a day and often had to be shoved onto the stage. De Pachmann was dubbed "the Chopinzee." He used to dip each pinkie in a glass of brandy before a recital and frequently interrupted himself mid-performance to tell the audience how well he was doing...
...most complicated passages into washes of pure color. And yet technique was not an end in itself; Busoni invariably sub ordinated pianistic skill to musical mean ing. Passion and intelligence were reconciled in sensibility, and in the last years of his life, says Busoni's biographer Ed ward Dent, his performances reflected "the spirit of a seer and visionary" and achieved a "grandeur" amounting to "prophetic inspiration...