Word: footings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even with the innovation of the foot pedal, playing the timpani remains a delicate and complex job. Each timpani is different, and in addition, each spot on the taut drumhead has a slightly different tuning, tension and response. And the tuning is still an uncertain science, performed with the orchestra in full swing around the timpanists. They have to find the perfect pitch despite the tooting and sawing of their neighbors and without losing track of the conductor. If you see them stooping over the drumhead during the concert as though they were whispering into a gargantuan ear, that...
...difficulty of seeing art-especially contemporary art-in Boston has less to do with a simple lack than with inefficient distribution. Other cities put art in centralized depositories and then put these depositories in proximity to each other, creating zones of very high art-object per square-foot ratios, such as New York's supremely logical Museum Mile...
...basics are simple: right foot, left foot, repeat as desired. But as anyone who had to cut a swath through regatta spectators this past weekend can attest, it's a jungle out there. To aid the National Geographic Explorer in all of us, here are the four most prolific inhabitants of this particular ecosystem...
...former four-year letterman at Michigan State enrolled in law school upon graduation, Mazzoleni might never have set foot on the bench again, never mind assume the leading role for the Crimson...
...almost scored the winning touchdown himself, but was stopped on the one foot line with :07 seconds remaining--setting up Wilford's game winning touchdown...