Word: minuet
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...that so many gentle hesitations before sforzandi and cadences, in conjunction with a tempo leaning toward the slow side, tended to restrict the flow. However, these elements of rubato, although not to my taste, were part of a deliberate, introspective interpretation which never lacked coherence. The readings of the minuet and rondo were exemplary...
...those who refuse to pay all or part of their income taxes-1,740 Americans took that step last year-the Internal Revenue Service and the resisters have worked out a courtly minuet. Thus, such longtime resisters as Folk Singer Joan Baez file returns (not to do so is a misdemeanor) that fully report income (to report inaccurately is fraud). They then withhold all or a percentage of their estimated tax as "war tax credit." The IRS files a lien on their bank accounts and takes the money. Technically, this form of resistance constitutes willful failure to pay, punishable...
Roaches are everywhere. The rats minuet and waltz around the floor...
...from Peterboro to Hampton and from Milford to Berlin, TIME Correspondent John Stacks finds that much of the intense campaigning is "out of joint with the reserved, modest and altogether sensible views of New Hampshirites about what the primary can mean to them. The New Hampshire contest is a minuet conducted by the press and the politicians. It means more to both those groups than to the people of New Hampshire...
Sutherland played the farce nearly as well as she sustained her pealing top E-flats. Faking a drum roll, getting her feet twisted in a minuet, ripping off a dazzling 2½-octave chromatic scale, while tearing up some papers and scattering them into the orchestra pit, she shed fresh brilliance on Donizetti's faded opus and the old-fashioned production imported by the Met from London's Covent Garden...