Word: drums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that it has focused attention away from the real problem with the bridge--its aesthetic idiocy. A monstrous construction of over 150 feet in length, 18 feet wide, and 20 feet height--with a large circular 'eye' in the middle--the bridge is, well, ugly. Instead of trying to drum up support for another ideological war on Harvard. Cambridge residents should press Harvard for a tangible gain--sending architect James Stirling back to the drawing board to design us a new bridge...
...Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is drawing up plans for an unprecedented set of six telescopes designed to record radiation waves not visible to the human eye. If the project gets center approval and its backers can drum up the necessary federal funding, the telescopes, expected to cost about $20 million, would be the first of their kind...
...weeks before, my photograph (jaw jutting, arms akimbo) had been on the cover of TIME magazine. With the insouciant hyperbole for which that publication is famous, the caption read "Taking Command." Inside, under a bold line reading "The 'Vicar' Takes Charge," the editors devoted several pages of snare-drum prose to an account of my life and a description of the Reagan foreign policy. ABC reported: "The sight of Alexander Haig taking command on the cover of TIME magazine was more than some of the President's aides could take, and since its publication there have been several obvious White...
...directors as Harold Pinter, Luchino Visconti and Peter Brook. For 22 years Producer Nicole Stephane could not get anyone to complete a film based on Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. Then, "motivated by pure altruism," German Director Volker Schlŏndorff (The Tin Drum), 44, agreed to "jump on the sinking vessel to try to save it." He focused on a single vignette from the book. English Actor Jeremy Irons, 35, and Italian Screen Siren Ornella Muti, 28, signed to play Swann and the courtesan he marries. The result, Un Amour de Swann (English version...
From the first peremptory drum roll of Rossini's La Gazza Ladra overture, it is clear that the brilliance of Celibidache (cheh-lee-bee-JaA-keh) is no myth. The performance is almost preternaturally nuanced, unfolding with a sure sense of logic and purpose. Even during the patented Rossini crescendos, Celibidache maintains a calm yet iron control, putting the listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish...