Word: hat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wear a Russian hat," Grewal says. "I bought a coat and had to wear it all fall. That's not a good sign...
...cameras also captured an angry John Harvard screaming out anti-Yale epithets--"Yale sucks!"--throughout the rally. And decked in puritanical black, a buckled hat and white stockings, "Harvard" made his first appearance as the mascot for the Crimson...
...date) has meant far fewer puffy noses and sour faces. Previously, Nyman was best known for the music he wrote for the idiosyncratic director Peter Greenaway (The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) and for his own superb 1987 opera, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, based on Oliver Sacks' best-selling book about neurological disorders. On a recent tour of North America with his 10- piece chamber orchestra, the Michael Nyman Band, the 50-year-old composer drew hip audiences and packed houses for programs of his recent works, highlighted by The Piano Concerto...
...criticism behind. His scores are replete with references to other music, and he uses the source material as the launching point for his own rhythmically relentless, acerbically orchestrated commentaries. "Music," he says, "is power, passion, pulse, pain." In the psychologically astute The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, for example, Nyman used a Schumann song, Ich grolle nicht, as the musical foundation of the opera to illustrate the eponymous victim's visual agnosia: unable to synthesize visual images, the man relied on Schumann's music to help him apprehend the world. In The Piano, Scottish folk tunes suffused...
...born July 16, 1991 in Independence, Missouri, and has appeared in dozens of movies, among them Top Hat and The Gay Divorcee. She is, of course, best known for her roles opposite the late Fred Astaire. Their dance sequences, which Astaire insisted always be filmed head to foot throughout, are among the most memorable images from the early days of sound motion pictures...