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...phonograph grooves vary minutely in their spacing and contour, depending on the dynamics and frequency of the music on them. Lintgen says that grooves containing soft passages look black or dark gray. As the music gets louder or more complicated, the grooves turn silvery. Percussive accents are marked by tiny "jagged tooth marks." The doctor correlates what he sees with what he knows about music, matching the patterns of the grooves with compositional forms. In a way, it is like reading a graph of a given work's structure. What is amazing about Lintgen is that he can read...
TUCHMAN'S TALENT FOR bringing historic episodes into sharp, dramatic focus has few rivals among modern writers. The words James Thurber once wrote of E.B. White could apply to Tuchman too: her sentences are "silver and crystal"; her ear "not only notes the louder cosmic rhythms, but catches the faintest ticking sounds...
...least, the players would have done well to turn their recruiting energies to the orchestra, which sounds regrettably soggy under Todd Ellison's direction, and the lighting, which, in Gil Ohana's design, seems to follow the rock-concert theory of brightening or dimming as the music gets louder or softer...
...officers to sort out the conflicting requests of the various departments. The President is faced with the need to pinpoint some $40 billion in new spending cuts for fiscal 1983, and then get a restive Congress to agree. So the din of budget clashes is destined to grow even louder and prove all but interminable...
...more as opening nights approached. The Loeb is only so big, and when both shows rehearse every night, possibilities are limited. Observes Samuels. "There were a surprising number of nights when we were rehearsing the same scene in adjacent rooms--and, for some reason, they always seemed to be louder...