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...music of Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Alvino Rey and Santo & Johnny ("Sleepwalk"). American manufacturers like Rickenbacker and Gibson began making instruments to suit this new style of music, essentially flat slabs of wood, metal or Bakelite outfitted with a pickup and six or eight strings set about an inch above a painted-on fretboard. A guitar in name only, the steel guitar is played seated, on one's lap or on detachable legs, with the hands resting on top. The right hand picks the strings, while the left holds a stainless steel bar that you slide up and down...
While the 48.2 percent of applicants who are women still makes up less than half of the pool, this year's numbers continue to inch closer to the fifty-fifty mark with a 0.6 percent change from last year...
Many Jews and ex-Israelis are extremely hawkish while leading safe and comfortable lives in New York City, Paris and London. They urge us Israelis not to give up an inch, to show strength, to send our sons to war. If we win a swift and stunning victory, they will be enormously proud. But if not, well, it's no skin off their back. SHMUEL OFRI Tel Aviv...
...approach of Megan McNaught's solo exhibition, titled Strategy, at Crosstown Arts: she creates a part of the work and then lets the painting dictate the next move. This is exemplified in her most striking work, a series of paintings in either two or three tones where five-inch by five-inch blocks are arranged in a geometric pattern on the large canvas. You can easily see its strategy-game aspect-the blocks are arrayed rather like the pieces in Tetris. However, the attraction of the texture of the brushstrokes and the striking choice of colors (gray on muted blue...
...Jeff Greenfield, spread out along a giant desk, come across at times like four strangers laconically chatting while waiting for a bus. And though I admire the guy and hate to say it, you've gotta place some of the blame on Bernard Shaw, sheathed in his 12-inch bulletproof coating of gravitas; it just seems to deaden anything approaching an irreverent bullpen sensibility, which you need if you plan to stay up with a news crew until...