Word: instruments
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...your articles on America's new immigrants [SPECIAL ISSUE, July 8], but I do not think of our country as a melting pot. To me that term implies that we have all been reduced to one large blob. I prefer to think of us as a symphony orchestra. Each instrument retains its individuality, yet contributes to the whole. Zena Sky Kansas City...
...lonely but intriguing fashion beyond the old Senate "club" and the Democratic Party's reflexive partisanship. He can be as tough as boiled owls about Reagan's policies ("cold unfairness") but in the same breath admiring of the man ("Ronald Reagan has restored the presidency as a vigorous, purposeful instrument of national leadership...
...similar growth on Nancy Reagan's upper lip in 1982, were excised by a procedure called curettage and electrodesiccation (see diagram) that usually takes five minutes. In this method, the dermatologist applies a local anesthetic and then scrapes away the soft, mushy tumor cells with a curette, an instrument with a sharp circular blade. Afterward, an electrified needle is applied to the area to destroy any remnants of malignancy. In the case of Nixon's l-in.-sq. tumor, a method called microscopically controlled surgery was used. The process calls for the removal of successive slices of tissue, each...
...people in the music trade? Well, they’re everywhere, and most visibly in recent years, they’re standing behind Ashlee Simpson and Hilary Duff when they’re on SNL or touring the ClearChannel-owned venues of America. They’re often male (instrument-players still disproportionately are), they’re inevitably clad in the most up-to-date wear from Urban Outfitters, and they’ve all been taught—by the label or by the unofficial requisites of the session-musician circuit—the same strange punky-jumpy...
...could take a block of wood and screw some hardware to it and kids in their garages in Peoria, Illinois could learn to play the guitar. And the effect? Today, so many people play the guitar, the bass, the keyboards, and so many people rightly call their instrument(s) their passion, it is a gross under-representation to say that there are too many talented people out there. It’s too easy to tell these poor souls to “get a real band.” I’m imploring you, and those like...