Word: excerpting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excerpt from Sherwood Anderson's classic Winesburg, Ohio popped into my head then: "There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood...
...Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen brought the concert to a triumphant close. The sultry melodies and sensual Spanish rhythms of Bizet's opera Carmen have led many composers to excerpt various dances and songs from the work. The flamboyant style of the melodies have made the work especially attractive to composers looking for virtuoso showpieces, and for no instrument has the opera been more metamorphosized in this manner than the violin. Pablo de Sarasota's Carmen Fantasy is probably the most famous, but there are also violin works by the German composer Franz Taxman and the Hungarian Jennie Hubby. Friday...
...article he first submitted to The New York Times, he says, hinged on one particularly graphic passage from the Starr report. But editors told him they would not reproduce the excerpt in his column, even though they had already published it as part of the full text of the report...
Consider the Monica-relevance of this excerpt: "Flirting between men and women has been one of the most pleasant activities since Eve first peddled her fruit to Adam. And, as Eve found out, there's always an element of danger in flirting--which is what makes it exciting...
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