Word: embellishing
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...screen. "It's like a comfortable old sweater," he says. "You just slip into it and drift off." He doesn't mind if his audience (which on this rainy night numbers 10) does the same. If he thinks anyone's getting too dozy, he says, "I'll embellish the score, put in some funny improvised bits...
...aren’t like math. I mean, while I have them, it’s not my concentration, so I don’t need advice about them from a office of study counseling,” says Sam H. Chang ’09, who tends to embellish. But what about those Harvard-wide issues that plague us all? “Say you want to have a baby, keep it in your dorm, but are worried about your roommate’s reaction,” FM asked BSC Director Abigail Lipson, “what would...
...feature prominently in the performance. Mozart’s upcoming anniversary has made him seem a bit like Willy Loman: apparently, homage must be paid. But while countless orchestras across the nation—and across campus—have been obligatorily trotting out his works, BachSoc will further embellish its celebration of Mozart’s legacy by performing a piece by Heitor Villa-Lobos. The Brazilian composer’s Sinfonietta No. 1, written in 1916, was created to honor the memory of Mozart. Rounding out the program will be Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto...
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...is—suggested answers include sorrow, vodka, and the motherland—it’s pretty clear that it’s not the kind of joyful exuberance that requires an exclamation point at the end. Kushner is, of course, the type of playwright who tends to embellish everything he does with an emotional exclamation point—think “Angels in America,” his award-winning play about the AIDS crisis. “Slavs!” is no exception. The play is divided into three loosely linked stories about ordinary Russians...