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...rest periods come out of a time of the year when the intensity is already much below what it is during the season, the period when our intercollegiate athletes need the time,” Lewis says. “It’s a bit of a blunt instrument for the league to be using to address the very real time and intensity problems the league faces...
...Filtering is seemingly inconsistent with the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” he said. “It also [indicates] that the Internet may be an instrument of censorship, political restrictions, discipline or other state control. In this context, carefully documenting the specific details of the changes is arguably helpful to those who seek to study, analyze, and debate such policies...
...operative instrument here is not the guitar or piano but the love-torn heart, which is what makes all the talk of loss and resurrection actually believable. His campfire blues on “Lonesome Tears” are exactly that, simple and honest—“How could this love ever-changing / Never change the way I feel...
...have to do this. But if you do it, you need to be serious about it,' " she says. Anoushka Shankar became so serious that by the time she was 13 she was performing alongside her father, whose name is synonymous with the stringed Indian instrument and who was responsible for it becoming known in the West. The legendary Ravi, now 82, has cut back on his concerts, but he predicts that his 21-year-old daughter is on the way to building a reputation that will someday eclipse his. "Anoushka has so much more than I had," he says...
...case. And Jerry Lee would be the definitive piano rocker in part because he was, in the music's infancy, one of its last. (The saxophone, primal ax of early rock, also went nearly extinct.) He worked under another disadvantage: A pianist, unlike a guitarist, couldn't take his instrument to a gig; at least back then he didn't. Janes ascribes some of Lewis' extreme behavior on the road to his annoyance at being given "some pretty bad pianos to play... A lot of the wild stuff he did on piano would be out of frustration because they...