Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Designing a new keyboard is one thing, selling it is another...
...with wooden type bars that fell back into place because of gravity, and IBM's fanciest $1,035 Selectric III with variable pitch, self-erasure and changeable type balls. But alas, even IBM's latest is burdened by Sholes' greatest yet most troublesome legacy: an eccentric keyboard...
...Gary Cooper in A Farewell to Arms. As things got worse, film fantasy became more and more a handy escape; Red Headed Woman with Jean Harlow, Winner Take All with James Cagney and Horse Feathers with the Marx brothers. Once, the Dixon theater, which had a three-keyboard Barton organ, imported a popular radio entertainer, Gene Autry, for a stage appearance. But the town's 1932 movie year climaxed with the showing (at the shocking premium evening rates of 50? to $1.50) of Grand Hotel. The stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore. Now those...
...select circle of great young pianists to which he belongs. His Chopin Etudes may set a new standard for his generation; his performance of Schubert's difficult late sonatas is a triumph of athletic as well as artistic ability. Pollini is also a leading interpreter of the modern keyboard classics. He handles Stravinsky and Prokofiev like a diamond cutter, concentrating profoundly yet striking with passion; he negotiates the atonal mazes of Bartók, Boulez and Webern with thoughtful ease, and provides the emphatic keyboard punctuation for Luigi Nono's unearthly enchantment...
...Keyboard Player Brian O'Neal, 24, and his bassist brother Kevin, 19, who wrote Minimum Wage's eleven songs and swap most of the lead vocals, share a gift for flipping stereotypes into comic contortions. Kevin's Respect is part Rodney Dangerfield, part Aretha Franklin. Brian's Johnny Soul'd Out is a black man's declaration of independence to make the kind of music he wants, not what is expected of him ("Johnny soul'd out . . ./ He's into rock 'n' roll and he's given...