Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conductor with an interest in contemporary music, they are versatile and ambitious, but also uneven; they lack a distinct personality. "I would like to give the orchestra an identifiable style," says Marriner. "My ideal would be an orchestra like the Cleveland under the late George Szell, a precise, responsive instrument in which quality, ensemble, intonation are all there." For starters, he is trying to coax more confident, uniform phrasing from the strings and a "rounder, more civilized" sound from the winds, especially the brass...
...creation of my concern, not my sympathy or empathy," says Kosinski, 46. "He is the enemy of everything I stand for, a point zero from which all my other characters depart." As Kosinski sees him, Chance is a victim, innocent and nonverbal, of a corporate state that, through the instrument of television, "has rendered him unaware, passive, with no notion of himself, his life, or of others." He is, in short, the ultimate voyeur, the sum not of his actions but of his reactions to a world of which he has been permitted only a partial and distorted view. Success...
...this Friday there is no work. Around noon Thursday, a navy blue Dodge Aspen, No. 142 274, went by on its way down the jerky, rumbling assembly line as Dodge Main's last car. As it passed, small groups of instrument fitters, engine installers and wheel mounters cleaned up quietly and left. When the line finally came to a halt, nothing dramatic followed, no mass exodus, not even a final silence. Plant officials gathered around the blue Aspen for photographs, then drifted to the windows overlooking the Bismarck Gate to watch television crews clustered around departing workers, striving...
...black male companion (Earle Hyman) have taken charge, emptying ashtrays and removing glasses. "Who are you?" Sam asks, varying his own line from the night before. "Jo's mother from Dubuque," Worth answers. But she is, it seems, an angel of death, or some other instrument of mercy, who has arrived to relieve Jo of her misery...
...boss that turns out to be about as easy to decipher as Egyptian hieroglyphics. Weaned as they are on telephones, typewriters, computer print-outs and other communications gadgetry, Americans have simply forgotten how to write clearly -when they write at all. So bad is the situation that the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association, which annually celebrates John Hancock's birthday, Jan. 23, as National Handwriting Day, has decided that it is "hopeless" to go on using the occasion to promote legibility in signatures. But the retreat is only partial. Says Frank L. King, W.l.M.A.'s executive vice president...