Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cranes to load metal castings onto fixtures which are wheeled into a storage area by a yellow trolley. When the electronic factory is ready for the casting, the metal is automatically rolled from there over to the proper machining center, which selects the right tool from a large drum of some 40 accessories and begins to customize the casting according to computerized blueprints. If a drill bit should suddenly snap in two, the machine senses the problem, selects another one to replace it and finishes the job. Castings proceed automatically to other machines, and emerge as finished parts in three...
...heroin and fear into a corpse-like tag-along, who by the end can barely keep time with a pair of maracas. More cheerfully, Charlie Watts maintains through all the years his proud, patient detachment from the tumult created by his mates. He sits, smiling behind his humble drum kit, clearly amazed that he, or any other grown man, can do this sort of thing for a living. In contrast, Richards gradually develops into the outlaw rocker he always knew he was, even when he kept his hair clipped short and wore a cardigan sweater during performances...
...loyal, even loving. His eyes widen in horror when he murders, and he clearly suffers with his victims. He hardly possesses the strength to pull a trigger, but he kills senselessly. Not even an adolescent, he displays the weariness of a 60-year-old. Not since The Tin Drum has there been so unchildlike a child in film...
...Drum Major-Harvard University Band South House Vice Social) Chairman Ugh-Rugby Hasty Pudding Theatricals Club Delphic Club...
...Grasse, whose naval blockade sealed the English defeat at Yorktown). There, after lobster and lamb, Mitterrand told Reagan that he relished "the humor of your conversation" and toasted "the generous smile of Mrs. Reagan." A few hours later the Presidents, their wives and 92 others arrived, amid fife-and-drum fanfare, for a black-tie state dinner at the 260-year-old Royal Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, twelve miles from Yorktown. Reagan, loose and happy, spilled a wineglass; Mitterrand, somewhat less bouncy, ate what was undoubtedly his first Virginia ham biscuit...