Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will face up to it. But we simply have to realize we are in an era when our ability to moderate the severity of crimes is substantially reduced from what it once was. We are much more reliant on public policy, which is a crude and not very effective instrument. And we are much less dependent on informal social controls, which, when they work, are the most powerful controls...
...quick tempo, an indication of things to come, was chosen for the first movement. The soloists approached their task in different ways; Perlman played very methodically and correctly while Zukerman, playing with confidence on an instrument that carried beautifully, strove to come out when he had a melodic line...
...Israeli occupation troops in southern Lebanon and have attacked Israel from wadis in the area. Israeli-government spokesmen claimed that their forces were counterattacking them with great precision, targeting guerrilla bases and homes, offices and training centers. In fact, Israel was pounding the country with a blunt and heavy instrument, reducing much of southern Lebanon to rubble. The onslaught was so fierce and went on so long that the U.S. and key Arab states wondered uneasily if the resumption of Middle East peace talks might yet be in peril...
...violin isn't the only out-of-the-ordinary instrument that Cop Shoot Cop can tame. "$10 Bill" gets all of its beat from a militaristic snare drum, "Everybody Loves You (When You're Dead)" features a piano trawling through what this band might call a ballad...
...says her mother, Doris Toomer. "We never had to ask, 'Do you want to do this?' She just went with it. She just decided [after trying out in the fourth grade] to take voice lessons, and that's when we found out she had such a great instrument...