Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phrase more grandly. "Bass drum, diminuendo, a little less all the way through," he will call out to an enthusiastic percussionist. Levine rarely raises his voice, preferring to maintain a relaxed but efficient atmosphere. "He's cool," says Trumpeter Melvyn Broiles. "I've never seen him flip out. He doesn't blow his top." Even at pressure-filled moments, such as the dress rehearsal of the Met's new production of Verdi's Macbeth recently, Levine maintains his equanimity. When backstage noise threatened to drown out the singers, he only briefly raised his voice: "Come...
...their palettes of light and shadow, would like to get in. Hence, "History of an Art," the slightly aggressive subtitle of Photography (Rizzoli; 269 pages; $60), an elegant survey of the men and women behind the camera. Unquestionably all those in the book are artists. It is impossible to flip through these pages and not feel delight, wonder, surprise and that baser response to creative expression, the acquisitive itch. The examples range from the early photo realism of Eugene Durieu that imitates portrait painting to contemporary collage by Carel Balth that explores puzzling questions of perception. The text by Jean...
EVERY WEEK. Time magazine features cover stories an leaders as they come and go Every week. Time reports on the rise and fall of entire governments And every week, when Time arrives in my mailboy. I quick flip past the cover story, past the "Nation" and "World" stories, to somewhere around page61. There, tucked between "Economy and Business" and "Religion" I find the enduring staple of my periodical menu the "People" section...
...people" section is eternal. As long as there are people and intrigue, one E, Graydon Carter will continue to extoll the elite stars among us. And i will continue to flip directly to this section, no matter how many governments get overthrown. Joseph Stalin
...clad in yellow, green and plaid and munching on chocolates, does the audience get its first hint that something unusual is afoot. The pair discusses Higgs, the first-string, and launches us into a fast-paced, clever hour-and-a-half's entertainment which only occasionally verges on the flip...