Word: instrument
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...trying to crush her, Stewart decides. Ada has only two loves in this bleak world: her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her piano. After Stewart cavalierly sells the instrument to his neighbor Baines (Keitel), Ada strikes a bargain with Baines. Under the guise of giving him lessons, she will buy the piano back from him, one black key at a time, by allowing certain sexual favors. One key is hers if she raises her skirt; two keys to let him touch her bare arm; five; 10 . . . Ada can win what she needs by meting out what...
Hugh Minton's musical accompaniment on synthesizer, is versatile enough that one does not notice that there is only one instrument. Director David McMahon has kept the script moving, and the actors at a high level of energy and focus for the eighty-minute show. Watching this is as easy as watching an episode of "Three's Company...
...Grossholz is in shock, as are thousands of other engineers, construction workers, scientists -- and most of Texas. With $2 billion already spent and the project 20% complete, the world's largest and most sophisticated scientific instrument, a particle accelerator designed to probe the innermost secrets of the universe, was canceled last week by a 282-to-143 vote in the House of Representatives. Said Ohio Democrat Eric Fingerhut: "This was a project that we couldn't afford. We need to take every opportunity to reduce our deficit...
...night at a dinner with his family he hears for the first time his family's legendary epic song. He is struck by how the "words and voice alike might as easily have come from the mouth of dead as of the living." The music of the strange boxlike instrument the musicians carry is akin to "the hollow...inside his own chest...
Perhaps the root of Chase's vibrato "problem"and the lack of fluidity characterizing herphrases lies in her experience as aperiod-instrument performer; playing frequently inarchaized style without vibrato and with notesseparated by the constraints of the baroque bow,she had become unused to the Romantic way ofplaying. But the precision of the next piece, theBeethoven Septet, suited her, and all those whoperformed in it. With Arturo Delmoni on viola,Ronald Thomas as `cellist, Timothy Cob as bass,Thomas Hill as clarinet, Donald Bravo playingbassoon and Robert Rauch again on French horn, theintimacy of the ensemble prevented thesemiorchestral atmosphere...