Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always paid attention to religion," he says, "because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them--other than goat sacrificing." He adds that last part with a minor-key smile that doesn't quite make it through all the paces. (Jackpot! A slipup in front of a reporter! Pitt's movies will now be boycotted by Satanists and practitioners of Santeria...
...happen to live on Manhattan's Upper West Side, though, you might get a chance this week to test a way around this minor annoyance--and in the process, become a trailblazer on the march to the totally cashless society. Just insert a special card into a special terminal or reader on the store counter and press a button. Then walk out with your purchase. That...
...thing, BIRR 4 has so far proved effective only when it's given at an early stage of infection, yet most people aren't aware that they are coming down with a cold until a few days after they have been exposed. And since colds are relatively minor nuisances from which most patients recover on their own, drugmakers have an extra burden to prove that their cure isn't more hazardous than the disease. "In our small study group we didn't see any side effects," Turner notes. "But if you give it to a million people, you might find...
Take for instance Pollini's performance of Chopin's first Ballade in G minor, the second item on the program after the opening Prelude No. 25. In spite of a few oddly reassuring finger slips (proof, perhaps, that Pollini is not a cybernetic organism) the interpretation seemed scarily authoritative. A percussive left hand and a sometimes sotto voce right transformed this standby into a sleeker, more macho epyllion...
Granted, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor is one of the most popular and playable concertos in the violin repertoire. Upon the advice of the violinist for whom he wrote the concerto, Mendelssohn avoided difficult technical writing, not because it would make the piece inaccessible, but because it was not essential to the piece's form. Nothing, in fact, is superfluous to the concerto's form. Critics called this straightforward style innovative and even revolutionary in the then-stagnant concerto repertoire...