Word: glue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brahms of his day, writing in forms such as symphony, concerto and oratorio, preserving the traditional structures in the ace of the avant-gardist onslaught. Henze has mixed idioms freely throughout his career: harshly dissonant modernism, soaring lyricism and frankly tonal conservatism. But the glue that holds his work together is its humanism. Henze's music is meant to be played and listened to by people, not computers. With serialism now in some disrepute, his stature as one who saw another path for postwar music looms larger than ever...
...larries do the bulk work, in this case a lot of hand smearing of stucco on elaborate stairs and platforms, a lot of painting, a lot of sealing cracks with muslin and Elmer's glue. The techies are left to chip away at details the rest of the week, assemble platforms into superstructures, dream up fanciful gels and filters for lighting--and, Thursday night, to dim the houselights and see what they have...
...spend such a long time by Nasser's side...I must have been, they concluded, either too insignificant or too cunning...All there was to it was that Nasser and I had been friends (for a long time)." Sadat had an almost fanatical belief in loyalty and thought the glue of friendship sufficient to keep even those who disagree together. In fact, he affirmed that he continually, if not always publicly, contested Nasser's policies. Upon the latter's death, it was only natural, said Sadat, to follow his own course, contradictions with the past now irrelevant...
...them are still kicking around inside the great, hollow fuselage. The outside of the Goose is a beautiful white, though it was aluminum colored when it flew. The ribbing inside looks like metal, but it is in fact neither metal nor spruce but laminated birch stuck together with glue. Everything is enormously outsize. At their thickest point the interior of the wings is 11 ft. high. A big man can walk out easily inside the wings to inspect the eight 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney engines, the largest radial engines ever built. For that matter, it is possible to crawl...
...away and replaced by red-brown fiber glass tile. One day the wind was so strong, Reagan remembers, that some of the tile and long boards flew out of their hands. Inside they laid a red vinyl floor, working in the chill with small electric heaters to make the glue stick. They set traps trying to kill off the numerous rats and wood mice...