Word: foraying
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...Friday night with the highly experimental “Moz-Art à la Haydn” by Alfred Schnittke. While the piece’s eerie qualities were fitting for the concert’s Halloween date, the reduced ensemble did not seem fully at ease with this foray onto new ground. The piece—designed to be as much for visual as for aural effect—began with discordant melodies played on a dark stage, then evolved into fragments of Mozart and Haydn themes coupled with choreographed movement of the players onstage between the stands...
...notch zoos and shelters cannot give big cats the huge range they have evolved, over millions of years, to need. Under such artificial conditions, one false move can provoke an attack. Sarah Roy, for example, tried to pet Tigger, the Arizona tiger, when it approached her during a foray into the animal's cage. She is now recovering from leg wounds but plans to return to work...
...Atlantic’s apparent foray into the college rankings game follows previous critiques of admission practices in the magazine...
...Dell has little time for skeptics who constantly try to paint it as an unimaginative box mover. Three years ago, the company was No. 6 in computers, with a puny 6% share of the U.S. market. Today it leads, with nearly a 30% share. Enderle says Dell's consumer foray, more so than HP's or Gateway's, is a "bellwether" of changing markets. "When a market is about to explode, Dell moves in," he says. "If it's moving into flat-panel screens, then you can be pretty sure that a lot of them will be sold this year...
...fact, Hammond’s time at Harvard has been a steady evolution of her perspective on public service. Harvard’s first lesson, impressed perhaps too fervently upon new residents of Harvard Yard, was that much is possible. On her first foray into Phillips Brooks House (the building that houses PBHA, among other things), Hammond was wooed by a zealous representative of Best Buddies, who struck her with a unique pitch. “He approached me and was like, ‘You look like you want to learn about this...