Word: instrumentality
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...indeed? Singers, especially sopranos and tenors, are notoriously insecure. They are the only musicians who wake up every morning not knowing whether their instrument is going to be there. "A singer is really a human container for the vulnerable, invisible instrument -- the voice. Because they can't touch their instrument, they can't see it, that makes for sensitive and fragile people," says Elma Kanefield, a psychotherapist at the Juilliard School in Manhattan with a private practice exclusively devoted to performing artists. "This instrument is vulnerable to weather or biochemical changes or other people's colds. I think they play...
...call him Anecdote Man). Anecdote Man was already laying out plans in his head for his 40-minute segment: "I'll start with an exhaustive 30-second account of the history of baseball, then sprinkle in a little evolutionary history of the lungfish, then mention some arcane astronomical instrument in one of those unknown churches in the French countryside, and then give them all my two cents on Foucault. They'll be wowed, again. I know as much trivia as Cliff Clavin...
That part of the male brain that is not fastidious about the U.S. Constitution and its phrase about "cruel and unusual punishment" produces this (typically male, violent) solution: a perfect retribution for the rapist, a condign mutilation. Let one-third of his instrument of crime be removed surgically. If he rapes again, let one-third of what remains be removed. This is a sort of pre-emptive judicial Bobbitt-lopping. Let the justice system and its surgeons play Zeno's Paradox on the rapist's johnson and see how many offenses he is equipped for. (Zeno's Paradox, of course...
...first single last year. There may not be another record this good that rocks this hard for a while--one reason for which might be that everyone more talented or more experienced than aMINIATURE has given up on big guitar attacks, and prefers to make mulit-genre, multi-weird-instrument concept albums, like this next...
...Tokio, obscenity--as beauty--is ultimately an instrument of social good. "All these geniuses who believe in our moral obligation to save the world as Harvard students post only malevolent comments on this board and fail to bless the poor masses with the beauty of their poetry," Rose raves. "Oh poop...