Word: instrumentals
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...mind and, for all her coldness, considerable charm. She had the treacherous habit of putting real people (friends, enemies, ex-husbands), thinly disguised, into her fiction--a matter, she said, of baking real plums into an imaginary cake. Her unusual compulsion to tell the truth could also be an instrument of vicious distortion. The technique proved lucrative with The Group, her best-selling 1963 novel of her classmates at Vassar and their subsequent lives...
...Portugal can use her phone from Ireland to Hong Kong. The U.S., in contrast, still allows various incompatible standards to compete like trains running on tracks with different gauges. As a result, a New Yorker cannot use his cell phone in London and, depending on his carrier and his instrument, sometimes not even in St. Louis...
...synthesizer is a gambler's instrument. It lures musicians with its gaudy array of textures and noises, but it can also deaden their performances. Sometimes, only sometimes, the gamble pays off. William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style, a collection of synthesizer arrangements of pieces by classical greats ranging from Vivaldi to Satie, is a case in point. When Orbit, Madonna's producer, sticks close to the composers' arrangements and instrumentation, as he does on Barber's "Adagio for Strings," the songs don't profit from the synthesizer's virtues and still suffer its vices. "Adagio" sounds like...
...other campaign members also distributed a petition supporting the Ethnic Studies Campaign as an "instrument of education and awareness." By the end of the day, Matt Damon and about 200 students had signed...
...this show is Norman's brilliant voice, which cuts through the nocturnal mood like a shaft of light. Though you can't help wondering what the diva could do if she shrugged off the opera-house manners and let herself go a little more, there's no denying an instrument of such grandeur...