Word: instrumentalization
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...thrust back and howling with pleasure. Beneath his fluid fingers, the keyboard ripples spontaneously, spinning out an endless series of riffs and variations, while his lyrical bassist, Gary Peacock, and elegant drummer, Jack DeJohnette, match him move for move. Heads nod approvingly as the melody is handed off from instrument to instrument, three men doing what they love best: making music with hand and heart...
...back office--a combination that enabled him to conceal the true nature of the transactions. But unlike Leeson, who has remained in a German jail while Singapore continues its effort to extradite him, Iguchi traded nothing more exotic than U.S. Treasury securities. They are "as plain-vanilla a financial instrument as you can find," notes Marc Cohen, managing director at the Hermes Capital hedge-fund firm. That very simplicity should have made the fraud relatively easy to spot...
...famous for not smiling. In a lovely moment from Go West, a tough cowpoke orders him at gunpoint to smile; after considering whether he'd rather die, Keaton fingers the corners of his mouth into an awful grimace. But this blank visage was a versatile comic instrument. The giant eyes spoke all manner of emotions: ardor, terror, despair, sheer mulishness. The Keaton deadpan is stoic, heroic and as thoroughly modernist as a Beckett play or a Bauhaus facade. Next to him, Chaplin is a Victorian coquette, Lloyd a glad-handing politician...
...Jackson says that Powell "ate political caviar" while "the people in his sea of black and Hispanic faces were being told that ketchup was a vegetable, their mothers were welfare queens and the quintessential criminal in America was black rapist Willie Horton," and that Powell "is but an instrument for white people to feel smug about solving racism...
...already declared this move one of the most ridiculous fiscal decisions in history, since it slashes into one of the most productive economic inputs--human capital. Despite an entire book written on the subject by Nobel laureate Gary Becker and dozens of other economists' faith in education as an instrument of growth, the Republicans have not exempted student aid programs from the budget...