Word: effective
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Like her previous work, the piano plays an integral role in Amos' arrangements. A difference is the increased use of the harpsichord, reflecting her classical training as a child. The harpsichord appears in the first single from the album, "Caught a Lite Sneeze," but is used to even greater effect in tracks like "Blood Roses," "Professional Widow," or "Talula," which apparently will be the next single to be released from Boys for Pele...
Offset with the hyperreality of the homeless characters in the audience (several audience members drew close their valuables or else took out change to give the actors, assuming they were authentic), the sum effect is one of deranged imbalance. This is especially true when a jazz band takes the stage and the homeless pair perform a choreographed dance and pretend to be playing along on tubes shaped like saxophones and guitars. The scene is perplexing, pointless, and childishly extreme...
Question 9 took effect January 1. But the state legislature's passage of Chapter 282 soon afterward assured that rents for those deemed "needy" by the city's rent control board would rise gradually, until the program was fully eliminated this December...
...Even though a significant number of our members gained protected status, the effect has been devastating," Turk says...
...prohibition on the manual input of ID numbers is still in effect in Loker Commons and the Green-house Cafe, and guest credit can only be used with a valid student identification...