Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...albums capture the qualities that make her recitals sellout events. Bartoli grabs the audience. She sings with her eyes too. In Rossini, who has lavish comic zest, she courts the phrases and the audience as well. She displays, as Levine says, "an exceptional instrument, personality, grasp of the music and the text and, most of all, the ability to communicate all this...
...display of the Vukovar photographs now hangs in the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade. Applied art indeed. They depict slaughters of amazing awfulness, performed with a conscienceless ingenuity that makes a man want to resign from the human race. Here, for example, we see an instrument that looks like a tuning fork, but with the prongs more widely spaced, about 3 1/2 inches apart. A local trademark is to gouge out both eyes. Hence this handy device. Studies in the Balkan Department of Comparative Atrocity...
...people here at such high levels, so it would be unfair of me to ask them to provide classes just for my sake, but I do think that Harvard could subsidize dance lessons outside Harvard if one is qualified and interested, just like they do for the voice and instrument programs through the Office For the Arts. I think that is a legitimate claim." Thus, although Salant feels that it is a well-meaning Program, the Dance Department needs to show a little more enthusiasm and provide greater care for the upkeep of facilities in its department...
...question, however, is who will be hurt. Even in its newly sharpened form, the embargo remains a blunt instrument. So far, it has done nothing to stop the war still blazing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The popularity of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has sunk, but he sits as firmly as ever in the saddle. What the sanctions have done is deepen the state of economic extremis for most people in Serbia and Montenegro. By the end of the year, estimates Austrian trade official Karl Syrovatka, 550,000 working people will be carrying the burden of 750,000 unemployed, 1.4 million...
...Brazilian and Nigerian, took a year-long solo spiritual journey through Nepal, India and Thailand before returning to London on a tail wind of inspiration. Last year Seal, 29, released a namesake album intermingling soul, rock and blues hooks into a strikingly fresh hybrid. He also introduced a novel instrument in soul circles: a solo acoustic guitar, which vividly sets off his yearning, crackling voice. With its shifting rhythms and varied sonic textures, Seal shows that soul can accommodate unorthodox structures and a mystical tinge while still shining through handsomely...