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...youth and origins” as her most appealing characteristics. But while Palmer may hail from the Palin state, she is quick to point out the differences between herself and the mayor of Wasilla. “She knows how to play the flute and I don’t,” Palmer says. “She’s a maverick; I’m not much of a maverick. She shoots things; I love animals.” If nothing else, the UC elections allow students to relive the joys of debating and analyzing the candidates...
...tracked Eddy, the flute player, to an apartment in Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city. He hasn't seen his family in two years. Every Tuesday he goes to the immigration office to try to get temporary visas to bring them to Mexico. But the Mexican bureaucrats keep asking for bribes. And he's not sure how his wife would even adjust--she's too communist, he says, laughing. She would miss her friends and co-workers in Cuba too much. For her part, she told me when I visited her in Santa Clara that she always knew it would...
...same weekend Fey spoofed the former beauty-pageant queen as bringing a flute for the "talent portion" of the debate, Real Palin was blowing a harsher tune. She cast Obama as a suspicious other--"not a man who sees America like you and I see America"--in a line of attack the Associated Press called "racially tinged." Fey's Palin hasn't set up mass viewers to see this side of her--not yet, anyway. It's not the funny, bumbling Sarah we know! We're conditioned to expect her to ask to "phone a friend," not accuse Obama...
...artists from 22 countries filled Pago Pago's Veterans Memorial Stadium for the July 21 opening, cultural diversity was everywhere on show - from the striking syncopation of Tahitian hula to folksy bamboo-flute-playing Solomon Islanders to the fierce bow-and-arrow dancers of Torres Strait. The stadium bristled with plumage, war paint and woven lava-lavas as the various island delegations (Papua New Guinea sent 170 people) vied for the audience's affections. "There was a highly competitive air," observes Wesley Enoch, artistic director of Australia's delegation, "especially around the dancing. They want to impress...
...display. Bresnick also praised the “Hydra” performance system designed by the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, which created a dramatic and atmospheric rendition of his composition. Giving credit to flautist Patti Monson for her playing during his “Conspiracies for Solo Flute and Four ‘Other Flutes.’” Bresnick emphasized the importance of multiphonics—a novel way of playing the flute that relies on unusual fingerings and special blowing techniques—to the composition. Multiphonics are one of the many innovations that...