Word: instrument
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dead style, like Diana Ross did for Billie Holiday--remaking rather than trying to emulate. He's even versatile enough to pull off country yodeling. Good voices are almost impossible to find in bands that haven't made it yet, as are intelligent ways of mixing, letting each instrument step out and hop over the wall of sound. The Sour Mash Boys have no such problem, which is why they record so well--when their tapes play Saturdays on WHRB, they sound more at home in studio conditions than most of the slick Nashville people who have been playing...
Kamin summarized the history of intelligence testing in the United States and said that it had been used as "an instrument for the oppressing the poor, foreign born and racial minorities in this country...
...rare pieces for unaccompanied violin. The difficulty of rendering harmonies and melodies simultaneously on the violin's four strings scares most composers away. Bach surmounted this limitation with an ingenious mixture of broken chords and double stops. He could thus create the illusion of a many-voiced instrument--he even wrote a convincing three-part fugue for solo violin...
...camera using nothing but his mind and a little hollow tube he called his "gismo." Reporters Charles Reynolds and David Eisendrath, who observed Serios at work in Denver, had little trouble constructing a device that could be secreted inside a gismo to produce all of Serios' effects. The instrument contained a minuscule lens at one end and a photographic transparency at the other. When the device was pointed at the camera lens and the shutter was clicked, an image was recorded on film...
...small cars proliferate, they are getting flashier; Detroit remains stubbornly convinced that car buyers want luxury along with fuel economy. More and more small cars now sport such features as velour upholstery, vinyl roofs, simulated-wood instrument panels, even chrome-plated grilles and hood ornaments. Such features are pushing prices up close to what drivers used to pay for big cars; a Plymouth Valiant two-door hardtop with all those features, plus three-speed windshield wipers, folding armrest and several other amenities, lists at the factory for about $3,500. Drivers are buying cars plain and fancy, low-and high...