Word: goldberg
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WEAK POINT: Rube Goldberg-like take-offs and landings, utilizing a flimsy bicycle landing-gear arrangement. Pogo outriggers support the wings and drop away when the plane lifts off. On landing, "it's like riding a bike off the back end of a flatbed truck at 70 m.p.h.," says U-2 pilot Major Jeff Jungemann. As the plane descends, another pilot races behind it in a Chevy Camaro, radioing to the plane's pilot his distance to the runway...
This miracle of invention, inspired by a vanilla aria on which Handel himself wrote five unassuming variations, drew praise even from Brahms' antipode, Wagner. Like their worthy companions, the Bach Goldberg and the Beethoven Diabelli, these pieces explore the melodic and harmonic potential of their progenitor exhaustively, and function collectively as a treatise on the composer's sense of keyboard style. But more than the Goldberg and the Diabelli, the Handel variations are witty...
...Given how often you're compared with Glenn Gould, have you ever wanted to play the Goldberg Variations...
Other undergraduate organizers of the conference at Harvard include: Samuel D. Baum '98; Nicholas A. Chavez '98, who is a Crimson editor; William Decherd '01; Jason M. Goldberg '98; Wesley K. Gilchrist '98; Oliver C. Haugen '98; Elena I. Pavlova '99; Laura E. Rosenbaum '00, who is a Crimson editor; Kimberly Song '98; Misasha C. Suzuki '99, and Sheila Warren '98. According to Geraci, dozens of students at schools across the country and around the world have worked on the conference...
Mattel, the maker of the Uno card game, is sponsoring the national event in conjunction with Comic Relief--a community service organization founded by Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal...