Word: minuet
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They quickly move on to a dishwashing minuet of scrubbing and squeaking, a sonnet of smashing trashcan lids together as cymbals, and endless other combinations of matchbox drums, rubber tonal tubes, bucket snare drums, tossing paint cans, and folding chairs. Every now and then, the team will breakout into a Riverdance-like set of Irish stepping; however, this tap dancing relies on steel-toed construction boots...
...those on the left who believe this would be the nose under the tent for single-payer. There are those on the right who suspect that this could be the nose under the tent for single-payer. The left and the right love to do that kind of minuet. I don't want to denigrate those views so much as to say that it is an unproductive sideshow to the major debate here...
...That's sex in a very PG, Potter fashion. The "snogging" engaged in by the 16-year-olds has a chaste, comic choreography, as if kissing were a minuet of locked lips. When Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his pal Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) talk furtively about the girls they're mad for, it's to acknowledge vaguely that they have "nice skin." And when our hero's notoriety makes the Hogwarts girls just wild about Harry, his friend-girl Hermione (Emma Watson) can't suppress a little sulfur puff of rancor. "She's only interested in you," Hermione snits about...
...minor, but noticeable in the first two movements of the E-flat major symphony. Despite the few early stumbles in the performance, the BSO did not fail to deliver on charm and grace, particularly in the third movement. Levine drew out long lines ascending a hearty scale in the minuet. The clarinet solo featured in trio section easily captured the sweet, dance-like feel of the symphony’s shortest movement.Yet the nimble passagework of the symphony’s finale was not characterized by the same clarity of the orchestra’s crisp trills and clean spiccato...
...social conduct. “No fresman [sic] shall talk saucily to his senior or speak to him with his hat on” was a frequent admonition. One of the French instructors, Peter Curtis, offered undergraduates dancing lessons—because every Harvard man had to know the minuet. Most of these ideas are quaint, but they speak to a sense of respect that is lacking on today’s campus. Nowadays, the College sets few standards for its men—just enough to hope they don’t get arrested...