Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frame the action and provide context. In between, he spins out long, shimmering arias whose sinuous lines deny the listener the security of a conventional verse-chorus-verse structure. Once a card carrying minimalist, the composer now weds a sturdy rhythmic pulse with a freer melodic and harmonic idiom that can evoke with equal aplomb a Monteverdi arioso, a Mendelssohn scherzo or Duke of Earl...
...life the revolution mercilessly crushed. She was the adored child of a rich Moscow textile merchant, whose money enabled her to go to Paris in 1913 and study under those secondary Cubists, Jean Metzinger and Henri le Fauconnier. Even her student work -- the big studio nudes in a Cubist idiom represented in the show -- has striking analytic toughness. Its painted planes, jutting and curling in imagined space, become literal in 1915: painted cardboard still-life sculptures inspired by Archipenko...
ALAN FEINBERG: THE AMERICAN ROMANTIC (Argo). This young pianist displays his uncommon grasp of the romantic idiom in these flavorful, virtuoso pieces by ^ U.S. composers Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Amy Beach and Robert Helps...
There are echoes of that old show in both the idiom and the cast of the drama dominating the airwaves today. Saddam Hussein made himself Public Enemy No. 1 with his armed robbery of an entire country. As the U.S. rushed to battle stations, an aide to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney exulted, "We're coming on like gangbusters!" And as it turns out, the commander of Operation Desert Shield, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, is the son of the cop turned radio star...
...even when we're not speaking Spanish but only English that a Spaniard will understand, the effect is just as rejuvenating. How vivid the cliche "over the hill" sounds when we're explaining it to an Osaka businessman! How rich the idiom "raining cats and dogs!" Speaking English as a second language, we find ourselves rethinking ourselves, simplifying ourselves, committed, for once, not to making impressive sentences but just to making sense. English is the official language of the European Free Trade Association, though none of its six members has English as its mother tongue. Why? Well, says the secretary...