Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feltsman falls between extremes. An angular, bearded man with the suffering face of a symbolist poet, he communes with the keyboard, not with the audience. His technique is solid but not especially flashy, his tone rich but not warm. Like many Soviets, Feltsman has some residual romantic mannerisms, such as a rhythmic stutter step in phrasing that in the early 19th century would have been viewed as a genuine rubato (literally, robbing the time value of one note and adding it to another) but is today decried as distortion...
Program Trading. On Black Monday, the N.Y.S.E. ordered a halt to certain kinds of computer-aided trades in which brokers send huge waves of buy or sell orders through the markets with a few taps on a keyboard. Those emergency restrictions are still in effect, and there is considerable sentiment for making them permanent. But even as program trading was emerging as everybody's favorite scapegoat, evidence was mounting that the practice had played a smaller role in the market's collapse than suspected. According to figures released last week by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, program trading accounted for less...
...study of a man and his epoch, Musicologist Edward Jablonski shows why the queries persist on the 50th anniversary of Gershwin's death. George's father, Leatherworker Morris Gershovitz, thought Ira, the oldest of his four children, was the most talented -- until George, nearly two years younger, appropriated the keyboard with an amalgam of brashness and genius. The boy abandoned school at 15 and quickly rose from Manhattan streets to the clamorous offices of song publishers. Sometimes his talent outstripped his ambition. When he auditioned for a job with Irving Berlin, the composer turned him down with some free advice...
...appeal of fax is speed and cost. Federal Express charges about $12 to deliver a one-page letter overnight. The same letter can be faxed in a matter of seconds for less than 50 cents. Telex also pales by comparison. To telex a document, a keyboard operator must retype it at a computer terminal before sending it to its destination. This can take an hour or more and cost about $5 for 50 words. With a fax, people can simply send a "picture" of the text. Says Mark Winther, an electronics analyst at Manhattan-based Link Resources: "The growth...
...than its PCjr series, which fizzled 16 months after a November 1983 introduction. The new IBM Model 25, for example, which sells for a suggested list price of $1,695 with a color monitor, boasts five to eight times the memory of a PCjr, a larger, easier-to-use keyboard and greatly improved graphics. On the same day IBM added a high-end $13,995 model to its much touted Personal System/2 series, the line of office gear introduced in April to replace...