Word: furioso
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...raised to the empyrean in 4 minutes 30 seconds, a rate of climb of $147,700 per second. And third, the Eucharistic Feast. After the sale, Christie's brought out a savory cake in the form of Sunflowers, the frame made of flaky pastry, the colors rendered impasto furioso in various hues of saffron-tinted cream cheese, the green bits done in spinach, and detail added with studdings of seeds. It was cut up and eaten by the worshipers. No doubt when and if a major Van Gogh self-portrait comes on the block, there will be a distribution...
...unsettlingly close. Under her administration, claim the critics, rampant high-rise construction has destroyed the character of the city's downtown, darkening its streets and driving out small business. Says Bruce Brugmann, publisher of the Bay Guardian, a local newsweekly: "With Feinstein it's been allegro furioso all the way. She's helping wreck the city she was born in." The mayor counters that her 1983 plan for downtown proposes "the most restrictive zoning of any high-rise business center in the nation...
...back to 1844, when Club, founded in 1795, cast a main in the role Bombastes Furioso, course, no female members. The play was given in Hollis 11 and the ovations for the man in the lowcut dress were so wild that the idea immediately became an institution...
...show's tradition goes back to 1844, when the venerable Hasty pudding club-founded in 1795, realized that it had to cast a man in the role of Distaffina in its first play, Bombastes Furioso because there were, of course, no female members...
...piece develops, a furioso section for the ensemble is followed by electronic responses from the soloists until the entire orchestra begins to fragment, a violin jutting out here, a trombone blasting there. Répons gradually increases in rhythmic complexity as held notes in the brass arch over the busily insistent sound beneath. The impression is of the turning of a gigantic wheel in space. The piece ends quietly on a stationary but disquieted chord; rest is achieved at last, but not peace...