Word: oddness
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...music as the third volume of its ongoing Glenn Gould Legacy series. (The first two volumes contain music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn; a fourth, of 20th century works, will be released in September.) The assortment of music on this three-record set, released last month, is very odd for a Romantic piano music collection: three sonatinas by Jean Sibelius, an obscure sonata by Richard Strauss, two transcriptions by Gould of highlights from Wagner operas, and more conventional repertoire by Brahms and Grieg...
...minor. A few, however, were phrased in the confusing Unocal style to offer favors to specific companies, industries or projects (Walt Disney Productions, the makers of cellular telephones and the Houston Astrodome, to cite three examples from the Finance Committee bill). Finally, with lawmakers lining up to introduce 60-odd additional amendments, the Senate put off a final vote on the whole bill until Tuesday...
...aircraft, a Bell 206 JetRanger helicopter with five aboard and a twin- engine de Havilland Otter carrying 20 others, are owned by two of the 40- odd firms that run aerial tours of the canyon. Sightseeing flights are the bane of local environmentalists, who hate the noise, and air-safety experts, who say that too much traffic crowds the canyon's skies. The National Park Service estimates that more than 50,000 flights are made over the 277-mile- long canyon annually. Last week's accident brings to 57 the number killed in 14 crashes around the canyon over...
Senators have already suggested some 30-odd amendments that would restore such well-established tax breaks as charitable deductions for non-itemizers, favored treatment for capital gains and full deductions for interest payments as well as for state and local sales taxes. A TIME poll conducted by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman late last month showed widespread popular support for retaining many of these tax breaks (see chart...
...sweep of what we can do with a computer is continuing to expand. That's odd for a technology," said Newall, differentiating computers from other technologies which man has used as a metaphor for the mind...