Word: interplay
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...seventh track, "Arkansas Traveler," poignantly illustrates Fleck's impressive ability to integrate disparate musical instruments and styles. The song begins with Fleck picking a simple folk melody alone. After several bars, percussion and bass lines emerge, sounding like the rhythm section of an Oscar Peterson album. The interplay between the banjo's folk melody and the jazz rhythms established by the drums and acoustic bass is astoundingly coherent. The phrasing is completely jazz, but the sound remains folk...
...dynamics of paradigm confusion in a Shakespearean comedy, see Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing" now available on video. If you didn't believe in the romantic potential of paradigms before you see this film, you surely will afterwards. For me, it was a stunning display of paradigm interplay...
Since we have been attempting to explain in our lectures and discussion sessions the complex interplay between the pragmatic activist mainstream sector of African-American intelligentsia on the one hand, and the Black solidarist or Afrocentrist sector on the other hand, my attention was immediately drawn to articles in The Crimson on the Black Students Association's (BSA) unfortunate invitation to Professor Tony Martin, whom I consider a xenophibic Afrocentrist and also to the BSA's proposed Kwanzaa Rituals celebration ("Martin Speaks at BSA Event," news story, Dec. 2, 1994; "Martin Speech Tests Hillel-BSA Relationship," news story...
Hereditary weakness can be introduced even when there is no underlying genetic defect at all. The biological interplay between individual genes can be extremely complicated, and breeding to enhance one characteristic can have unintended consequences. Vets believe the retinal disease that afflicts most collies may fall into this category. The gene responsible may lie very close to the one that gives collies their long noses and closely set eyes -- traits that have been deliberately emphasized by breeders. Says Dr. Donald Patterson, chief of the medical genetics section at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine: "Many people have...
...show. Tim is a guy's guy who gets excited about playing with power drills and rewiring the dishwasher; yet he's something of a klutz around the house. It's an old sitcom formula -- Dad as doofus -- but brightened by the sarcastic, surprisingly adult interplay between Tim and his wife (Patricia Richardson) on the subject of maleness and its drawbacks...