Word: landmarking
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Apart from its knuckle-breaking difficulty, the piece presents a fundamental challenge: how to handle the repeats of Bach's 30 variations without becoming tedious. Glenn Gould solved the problem by skipping most of the repeats in his landmark 39-minute studio version, recorded in 1955. Feltsman has found another way. In addition to changing the dynamics, articulation and ornamentation of the repeated passages, his 79-minute interpretation departs radically from the usual approach by shifting octaves and even reversing the voices by crossing hands on the keyboard. The result is an electrifying performance -- technically dazzling yet infused with romantic...
...Angeles these days, friends of Bill's are looking after him: besides the Thomasons, there is Gary Belz, whose family owns the landmark Peabody hotel in Memphis and who moved to California two years ago, where he runs recording studios and studies the teachings of an Indian guru. And then there is Stone, Roger's manager, who favors lobster dinners and snakeskin boots and spent years sharing the road and mountaintop commune of the heavy-metal boogie band Black Oak Arkansas...
...LANDMARK STUDY IN 1980 THAT FIRST raised U.S. consciousness about the math gap: elementary school students in both Japan and Taiwan rated far ahead of their American counterparts in mathematical skills. The shock -- and an aftershock when a repeat survey in 1984 found the gap still there -- galvanized parents, politicians and educators into placing a new emphasis on math and science in the schools...
...that women who consume 0.8 mg of folic acid, a B vitamin, for at least a month before they conceive have a dramatically lower risk of bearing a child with a neural-tube defect. Although the link between folic acid and neural-tube defects has been made before, this landmark study of 4,156 women is the first to show that the malformation can be prevented -- even in women who have no previous history of bearing children with neural- tube defects...
...mules, if you will, of genetic research; they breed fast, and their simple chromosomes are ideal for the study of heredity. Now a group of U.S. biologists has found a way to freeze living fly embryos. Not only does that guarantee a stable fly supply, but it is a landmark achievement in another sense: fruit flies are the most complex organisms ever to be lab frozen and revived. The technique could lead, albeit far down the road, to the freezing of mammals -- even humans, maybe...