Word: headworks
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...Arturo very well. At once they began to carry stones up the hill, mostly on their heads. On May Day the village's few Communists joined them in a big procession that moved more stones than ever in honor of the Virgin. Even plainsmen from Nola admired the headwork of the Viscianesi and came to lend a hand from time to time in supplying material for an orphanage for 200 children from three to seven...
...like being sprayed with salvos of molten metal and broken glass. But the salvos were always tightly under control, and the fragments landed in a precise, intricate pattern. The concerto moved in a strong, surging series of climaxes, without concession to showiness or chic. For all its uncompromising musical headwork, Sessions' concerto had a lyric calm that pervaded even the lightning shifts and stabbings of the fast passages...
...Headwork. In Miami Beach, Barber Peter Renucci moved quickly when a nearby competitor knocked 50? off the price of a $1.25 trim, posted a sign: "We repair 75? haircuts...
...Headwork. In St. Louis, Realtor Elliott W. Bergfield signed up, along with 34 women, for a class in hatmaking in order to "reduce household expenses...
Since his Whiteman days, Red (real name: Kenneth Norville) has done time on the woodpile, vibes and marimba in bands ranging from 20-piece earsplitters down to sextets. Trio work is something fairly new, and Red finds it "all headwork-the bass has to cover for a drummer, the guitar for clarinet or trumpet, the vibes for piano." Headwork or handwork, old Red was the uptown...