Word: instrumentalization
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...sure. James Paul McCartney was the son of working-class Irish parents. His father was a cotton salesman and an ex-jazz trumpeter and piano man, his mother a midwife. As a child, McCartney was a Boy Scout and a bird watcher. His first real instrument was a Zenith six-string, which he played left-handed. In 1960 he was just one of four unknown teenagers performing in the squalor of Liverpool's underground Cavern club. By 1965 the Beatles had stormed America, met the Queen and been hailed as pop prophets. By 1971 -- before any of the four...
...millions come to hear him speak." He was a formidable presence at rallies throughout Serbia. "In less than a year," says Djukic, "he moved from being a second-rate politician to almost a god." And in the process, he purged the party of all opposition, turned television into an instrument of personal power and abolished the autonomy of Kosovo and Vojvodina...
Michael Ford, 43, was sought on charges of larceny, trespassing, receipt of stolen property and uttering a forged instrument...
...still lifes. He was not interested in figures and had no feel for the human face. The best of Harnett is, so to speak, the weak populist end of the best strain in 19th century American art: its adherence to pragmatic, empirical vision, to art as an instrument of the world's measurement. (The great figures in this are Audubon, Eakins and Homer...
...revenues made by U.S. airplane manufacturers comes from sales abroad, money that then finds its way into the cash registers of grocery and shoe stores and insurance agencies in the communities where the workers live. Corn growers bring more than $6 billion of cash into the country, scientific-instrument makers more than $12 billion. Contrary to the protectionist shibboleths, imports benefit the country as well: from cars to vcrs, the American consumer saves money because of cheaper products shipped from overseas...