Word: interplay
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...that showcased their musicality but never overshadowed the singers. It was especially interesting to note how the two players of the violini da brazzo (precursors to the modern violin) held their instruments in the crook of the arm, rather than under the chin. These two violini had a notable interplay of melody in verse seven of the Magnificat. Also, the instrumental sonata (Sancta Maria, XI) provided the audience with the pleasure of hearing the Ensemble alone, and basking in the clarion sound of the ancient instruments...
This pervasive pain, however, may be what makes the author's ending, a skillful interplay of sadness and mystery, work as well as it does. The dogs, who are quite rich, build a large castle, delighting and diverting human residents of New York City. But their tortured bodies are beginning to fall apart. Alone in his apartment, a brilliant German Shepherd named Ludwig von Sacher reverts to dog behavior--scratches on the door, piles of feces on the rug--then recovers enough to write in his journal, "I am alone in the world, a ludicrous animal." So are they...
DIED. ROSS FINNEY, 90, composer fascinated by the interplay between music and memory; in Carmel, California. His pieces ranged from folk-influenced compositions to 12-tone works...
Although gerontologists acknowledge the interplay of heredity and environment, they tend to fall into camps in explaining how aging works. Wear-and-tear theorists hold that living itself is fundamentally dangerous. The same breath that gives and sustains human life produces oxygen radicals, unstable compounds that when combined with just about anything, have toxic effects on cells. Add to that the weakening over time of the immune system, which leads the body's fight against disease, and decline is inevitable. Biologists are now experimenting on rats and rhesus monkeys to see if restricting the intake of calories (while maintaining healthy...
...Dole seemed set to surprise folks by picking his longtime antagonist Jack Kemp as a running mate, we realized that the convention package being prepared by Stephen Koepp, Priscilla Painton and their Nation team was becoming the most fascinating political story of the year. It embodied all the marvelous interplay between politics and personality that has been TIME's franchise for 73 years. If the presidential race is destined to tighten (and I suspect it is), this could do it, and it will help clarify the very real choice voters face in November. America is sometimes infected by a cynical...