Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This concerto has a late-classical sound unusual for music written fewer than twenty years after Bach's death. Though the structure and idiom of the middle movement were predictable, the finale was full of surprising figures and irregular phrases. The orchestra met the movement's polyphonic and rhythmic demands and maintained the character of the dance...
HOSPITALIZED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former U.S. Senator; in serious but stable condition for treatment of liver dysfunction and an irregular heartbeat; in Boston. There was no evidence that Tsongas' lymphoma, diagnosed in 1983, had recurred...
...Washington's dirtiest tricksters and gave his name to an era of witch hunts: "[Joseph] McCarthy's idea of a meal is steak, very well done. 'Cremate it,' he tells the waiter. He almost always has steak for dinner, often for breakfast...He keeps irregular hours, gets up late, goes to bed usually long after midnight. A favorite McCarthy recreation is poker, but many find playing with him too nerve-racking...In seven-card stud, McCarthy will raise, raise again and then again without even bothering to look at his hole cards. Said one opponent: 'You get to the point...
...Universe used to be very smooth, and we're looking for when it started to clump up and become more irregular," Kirshner says...
Hyman acknowledged that the executive board's voting procedure was irregular because the Campus Life co-chairs, who usually split one vote, had two votes in this decision...