Word: keyboarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World ideal. We don't ever want to run out of that, do we? Goodbye land. Hello space. Can't you picture all those moons and stars, smiling and winking and waiting for a visit? Howdy, Mr. Jupiter. Inventions arise when they're needed. This here screen and keyboard might have come along any old decade, but it happened to pop up when it did, right now, at this point in time, like the politicians call it, because we were getting hungry to be ourselves again. That's what I think, buddy. "The most idealist nations invent most machines...
...neglecting some sort of larger responsibility. Here my sister is, on one side of the world, toiling away under the sun, risking her health, getting paid about $2000 a year with nowhere to spend the little money she makes. And here i am, pounding away at the keyboard, finishing up another paper in an endless stream of paper so that one day I can graduate and get a good job. One of us must be wrong. Either she is wrong, in her desperate, beautiful way, trying to save people who will only die, saving people who will have kids that...
...that he shave off his beard and call himself Noel Rehsielf, which is his name spelled backward. But Leon Fleisher said he would go on, which is no spelled backward. To demonstrate to the world that, after 17 years, he could once again range up and down a piano keyboard with both hands, he chose the most visible occasion he could find: the inauguration last week of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's $23 million Joseph Meyerhoff Hall...
...fingers at a vulnerable rock world and shaking it out of its mid-'70s doldrums. Although Costello was never really a part of the Pistols' punk movement, he found a comfortable niche anyway, "surfing" on the new wave, as he likes to put it. A pumped-up Steve Nieve keyboard; an acid-tinged tongue; a bitter searching voice--these were the early Costello trademarks, and they even betrayed at times a vitriol seldom equaled by the best of the punks...
DIED. Clifford Curzon, 75, sublime British pianist whose keyboard virtuosity and prodigious repertory won him world acclaim; of congestive heart failure; in London. A child prodigy, Curzon became a subprofessor at the Royal Academy of Music when he was 19. When asked to explain his musical ability he once said, "I practice and practice and work and work. I dare not take anything for granted...