Word: keyboarding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music world's most eminent performers clamor for his accompaniment, a reader may become jaded with unalloyed success. What is the point of going on? Aren't there any problems in this book? Unfortunately, the only serious trouble to visit Conroy's story occurs when Claude is at the keyboard. Here is what happens when he sits in on a jazz session: "G minor C seventh, A-flat minor D-flat seventh, A minor D seventh, B-flat minor E-flat seventh, and then a quick little half-tone figure to come out exactly right on F dominant seventh...
Reunited for Republic, its first studio effort in four years, New Order has not so much progressed as consolidated. Time and success seem to have brought the band out of its hermetic shell and into a bigger, if not always brighter, dimension. The new songs still seethe with catchy keyboard and guitar hooks and foot-happy beats; even the slower numbers are propelled by a steady rhythmic pulse. But the narcissistic intensity of the lyrics has evolved into a more compassionate outlook...
Jack O'Leary, a sports-writer for the Boston Herald, stopped typing away on the small keyboard of his standard-issue Radio Shack laptop and looked up at me from across the fold-up table. "You're not going into this business, are you?" he asked gruffly...
...made it through that night and the nights after that, returning to the keyboard to somehow reach deep inside my gut and spin out words I never knew I could write...
Houtkin hits the keyboard, and prices for the stock of Cisco Systems, a volatile computer company, pop up on the screen. Fortunately, I'm told to ignore everything except two columns I can barely read anyway. One lists the prices that 47 marketmakers (firms like Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter) are willing to pay for Cisco. The second shows what they're willing to sell...