Word: lag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stevens' new Musicmasters album Bach on Marimba, a selection of the Inventions (originally written for a keyboard instrument) leap and dance crisply, while the chorale Christ lag in Todesbanden shimmers and glows. "With the xylophone, you hear more brittleness," explains Stevens. "With the marimba you hear the air column, a mellow, captivating sound that is rich in bass, like an organ...
...fictive account of an incident in 1789, when his native land was a penal colony. There, a troupe of convicts acted in George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer, under the supervision of their frowning keepers. The opportunities for irony are omnipresent: male and female prisoners, known as lags and she-lags, are liberated into their parts, while ! guards are locked inside their roles as soldiers. Under the Southern Cross an upright commanding officer, tempted by a she-lag, consults a chaplain on the validity of marriage vows made in another hemisphere. Perhaps the greatest irony is the novel...
Indeed, space experts in the U.S. and Europe are now conceding publicly what they would have found laughable a decade ago: although the Soviets lag far behind in electronic gadgetry, they have surged past the U.S. in almost all areas of space exploration. If unchallenged, Moscow is likely to become the world's dominant power in space by the 21st century. Says Heinz Hermann Koelle, a West German space-technology professor and former director of future projects at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center: "American pre-eminence in space simply no longer exists." Warns James Oberg, an expert...
Litigants may have more difficulty in proving their cases when the disease is AIDS because of the time lag between exposure to the virus and development of the disease. Experts estimate this to be an average of four years. (The herpes incubation period is often two weeks or less...
...Tocqueville, a century before, had labeled as particularly "American": pragmatism, efficiency, and belief in democracy. In addition, Horowitz writes--and this is a fascinating insight--Toscanini seemed to fulfil America's dream of denying the significance of the past, which seemed to dictate that American art would continue to lag behind Europe...