Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inner parts to increase its reverberation and enhance its timbre. They altered the length, size and layout of the strings, redesigned the bridge, which transmits vibrations from the "speaking length" of the strings to the sounding board, and devised new pins for anchoring the strings to the metal frame. Periodically concert pianists stopped off at the Baldwin factory in Cincinnati to test the evolving instrument. "Make it more sexy," advised one. Try for tones "like smoke rings," suggested another...
...Howlin' Wolf, 56, is the chief exponent of "dirty downhome" country blues. "The Wolf" rarely stirs his hulking, 6-ft. 3-in., 250-lb. frame from a rickety wooden chair in front of his band; but standing or sitting, he movingly shouts the dilemma of the country man who is restless in the urban maze...
...grandson of professional string musicians and a student of Gregor Piatigorsky, played the Shostakovich Cello Concerto, with which he had stirred the Moscow judges and audience in June. ("Viennese refinements were out-they wanted guts, they wanted the roof to come down," he said.) Hunching his lanky frame over the cello, Kates boldly carved out the jagged, pulsating lines of the piece with a firm tone and a left hand that skipped deftly through the most prickly technical snares. The roof came down...
...told that I look like Churchill and speak English like Charles Boyer," Paul-Henri Spaak once said. "Of course, I would rather speak English like Churchill and look like Charles Boyer." With 230 lbs. on his six-foot frame, Spaak could hardly pass for Boyer. And for all his oratorical gifts, he would never be confused with Sir Winston. Yet for 34 years, he was a power in Europe. He was Foreign Minister of Belgium six times, and twice the nation's Premier. Spaak in fact, was bigger than the tiny country in which he was born...
Tourists should have no problem knowing when their insult has struck home. They will "immediately notice the sudden contortion of the victim's features, the suffusion of blood to his head, the clasping and unclasping of his hands, the spasmodic twitchings of his whole frame and a number of other outward manifestations of inward disquiet. And surely this will be a sufficient reward...