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...expression from the piece’s idiosyncratic language. Yearning and singing through the cello, he swayed at times into a consonant orchestral sound before erupting out of it. He displayed a mastery of the virtuosic music, especially in a brief cadenza near the end of the movement.The second movement, an Andante, seemed like it was always reaching for something, and as in the first, Koh shifted elegantly from introversion to extroversion. Impelled by a pizzicato theme in the cello at the beginning, the third movement continued Yannatos’ unusual tonality. The orchestra had a kind of bulging tension...
...party enthusiasts claim that the tea parties were supposedly a spontaneous, nonpartisan, grassroots movement fashioned after the Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773, when disgruntled colonists tossed tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation. The only problem is that the tea parties of Tax Day 2009 were neither spontaneous nor, in fact, very much related to the original tea party...
...other main candidate is spending. However, if the protesters were protesting Obama’s profligate spending, then what connection is there to the Boston Tea Party at all? Furthermore, according to Karl Rove, “If [the tea party movement] has a father it is CNBC’s Rick Santelli, who called for holding a tea party in Chicago on July 4.” Yet Santelli was condemning homeowner bailouts—neither direct taxes nor spending...
...protests’ muddled message diluted their efficacy and enhanced the perception that the movement was more a tantrum thrown by a disgruntled conservative base than a national uprising against federal excess. The confusion was further exacerbated by the ubiquity of hyperbole and innuendo...
...incident also serves to further baffle those who knew Rozsa. "I used to ask myself, would a supposed journalist just stop writing and take up as a fighter in an independence movement that isn't his?" Drago Hedl, a journalist for the Croatian newspaper Morning Paper who interviewed Rozsa in 1991 and 1992 several times, tells TIME. "And now I wonder, why would a man who writes poetry and wants to be an actor end up as an assassin...