Word: instrumentalization
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...environment. The program is meant to drum up interest for the agency’s research among young people born after the space shuttle started flying in the early 1980s. NASA also announced this September the design it has chosen for the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The instrument, called the Next Generation Space Telescope, will likely be located at a special point in space nearly a million miles from earth where the gravity of the earth and the sun counteract each other to keep the telescope in stable position. Such a location has also been suggested...
Greenstein was born in New York City in 1909. When he was eight-years-old, his grandfather gave him a brass telescope, which ignited his obsession with stars. As a child, he built his own astronomical equipment, including a spectroscope, an instrument used to examine wavelengths of light...
...Fashioned glass or squat glass for the drink. Put sugar cube in the bottom and pour bitters over it to soak the sugar. Add liquor and orange slice if desired. Use a muddler, an instrument with a blunt end, to muddle the mixture. Make sure the sugar cube is crushed and the fruit juice released. Fill the glass with ice and top with soda if desired. Garnish with a cherry...
Guitarist Eric Krasno was no less impressive. Moving fluidly between jazz chord voicings, Hendrix-like blues riffs and soulful lead lines, Krasno is a master of his instrument in all capacities. He spent the night leaning against a bar stool, often mimicking his guitar lines with moaning facial expressions...
Hill's two best hits--1998's This Kiss and 1999's The Way You Love Me--were frisky mid-tempo numbers that played to the strengths of her voice. It's not a big instrument, but it's smooth and confident and relaxed. On Cry, that ease is absent for frustratingly long periods. The album opens with Free, a nice enough tune about overcoming your demons that Hill characteristically undersings. The first sign of trouble is the title track, a big, diva-ish song that she strains to pull off. It works because the hook is a winner--"Could...