Word: josef
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Citing a quotation by Josef Stalin, Lloyd said, "He who controls the votes will win the election...
Examples abound in the Pearl series. The easy virtuosity of Pauline Alpert's Rain on the Roof, with its cascading arpeggios and delicate filigree work, matches the best that classical contemporaries like Josef Hofmann or Josef Lhevinne had to offer. Her performance of Gershwin's Fascinatin' Rhythm out-Gershwins the great man himself. Confrey's rhythmically tricky 1921 showpiece, Kitten on the Keys, is novelty's signature tune, but his Humorestless, a clever musical pun on both Dvorak's Humoresque and Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home, is equally typical of his exuberant style. Most ambitious...
...reminding his listeners that it is the only instrument capable of emulating both the tender nuances of vocal music and the thunderous range of the orchestra. When Wild plays, the pallid noodling that often passes for pianism these days vanishes: one hears the grand echoes of Paderewski, Rachmaninoff and Josef Hofmann...
...welcome one. The drama opens with the Rev. Lionel Espy (Josef Sommer) alone on the stage--or perhaps he is not alone, for we catch him in a moment of intense prayer. (The play captures many of its characters in prayer, a device that neatly resuscitates the traditional dramatic soliloquy.) Espy is an aging, equivocating figure caught in an equivocal time and place: contemporary South London, a run-down environment in which brutality and indifference raise doubts about the church's relevance. He's the sort of man whose ability to see both sides of a question is cited...
With their last truce in shambles and Russian shells falling again, Chechen rebels promised a "bloodbath" to avenge Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's mass deportation of their people exactly 50 years ago. In Moscow, President Boris Yeltsin marked Russia's Red Army Day by admitting his troops were getting "wobbly," but he denied that they have committed atrocities in Chechnya. Yeltsin himself looks as wobby as ever: New polls say two-thirds of Russians think he should not run for president in 1996, and more than half would like him to resign...