Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flashing two-fingered V salutes, the Druze shouted, "Victory is ours!" To cele brate the capture of the strategic crossroads of Khalde, on the coastal highway south of Beirut, one of the militiamen fed abandoned American ammunition into the vehicle's 50-cal. machine gun and fired ear-splitting bursts into the air. A few miles offshore, the menacing shape of the U.S. battleship New Jersey glided slowly past, like a big gray cat circling a bird cage. Its 16-in. guns, which had rained devastation on Druze strongholds in the Chouf Mountains the week before, were silent...
Such problems, though, may turn out to be short-lived. Synthesizers are enjoying a particular vogue just now because, in the words of one composer-arranger, "they fulfill pop music's never-ending quest for fresh ear candy," but entertainment-industry enthusiasms are notoriously transient, and next year may bring a rage for Mahler-size orchestras or Renaissance recorder ensembles. And despite its mockingbird predilections, the synthesizer still sounds, at root, mechanical...
...Berkeley workshop, envisions an instrument without a keyboard at all. Moog, now in North Carolina, is "working with musicians who need instruments that don't exist." If they succeed, the future could hold an aesthetic in which unconventional sounds fall as lightly and harmoniously on the ear as the C major scale...
...will be a few years until find exactly what works," Flug said. "We're going to play it by ear," she added...
...Crimson enters its toughest road rip of the year after four wins in a row and confidence blowing out its ear. " We know we're playing the best ball of the year," Greg Wildes says. "And we know it's tough to play down there, but we need this...