Word: dryness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson's new patient, "Mrs. P.G.," as he later called her, said she was 52 years old, but her body told another story. "Her breasts were supple and firm, her carriage erect; she had good general muscle tone, no dryness of the mucous membranes and no visible genital atrophy. Above all," Wilson noted, "her skin was smooth and pliant as a girl's." When asked about menopause, she laughed and replied, "I assure you, Dr. Wilson, I have never yet missed a period. I'm so regular, astronomers could use me for timing the moon...
...carefree quality of the movement in its recapitulation. He fortunately saved some of the stridence for the bold, personal statements of the second movement's Largo ma non troppo. In the cantabile section of the movement, violist Hsin'Yun Hwang offered solo playing of utmost sincerity with none of dryness that pervades chamber music today...
...texture is quite thick, the balance was not effective, the notes of the accompanying voices excessively labored and the melody not sufficiently passionate. Here also the contrasting characters displayed by the different instruments detrimentally affected the Quartet's performance; while in most places these variations added interest, the dryness of the violist's sound in the Brahms grated on the ear. The second movement, "Romanze: Poco Adagio," sounded labored and muddy and the third movement was unmemorable. Only the fourth movement, again "Allegro," displayed the requisite character of intensity and dramatic excitement, rising momentously to its climax...
...what at first seemed like a special effect--the fact that her vibrato began only after half of each note was done--carried through the entire performance. Passages occasionally surfaced in which she was more relaxed and lyrical, but in general, these would relapse all too soon into ascetic dryness...
...wetting the work of dryness but of its opposite...