Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatic news broke in an offhand manner. After a routine conference at the Vatican last Tuesday, Press Officer Romeo Panciroli stood to read what was expected to be some minor announcement. Instead, he intoned that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith "is constrained to declare that Professor Hans Kung, in his writings, has departed from the integral truth of Roman Catholic faith, and therefore he can no longer be considered a Catholic theologian or function as such in a teaching role...
Jenkins is unique among the few top-notch violinists that jazz has produced. Stephane Grappelli and Joe Venuti have been the instrument's two most successful improvisors, each using a fluid instrumental technique that can approach the offhand fluency of a saxophone or trumpet. Jenkins is the most violinistic violinist in improvised music; his effective use of double-stops (two notes bowed together), rapid bowing, and pizzicato techniques places him much closer to the classical violin tradition than any of his predecessors in jazz...
...lengths, as content dictates. On PBS, which has mimicked the rigid schedules of the commercial networks, content must conform to the clock. As a result, twelve minutes were chopped from the BBC's version of Kean. Most of the loss has been in those offhand moments that give the play texture, but a couple of key scenes have also been dropped, making the first hour unnecessarily difficult. Joan Sullivan, producer of "Masterpiece Theater," argues that her option was to show either a cut Kean or no Kean at all. It was a choice that PBS should not have forced...
...exactly right ... You just can't recall. It was in a meeting." Haig now claims that since he had held his job for only one month at the time of the conversation, he did not fully understand the President's problem. Says he: "It was an offhand remark that meant nothing...
...eliding words in vintage hipster style, as if English were a foreign language learned in a speed-speech course. For slow learners, lyrics are printed on the back of the album, and they make for some of the best new reading in pop. Still, one can appreciate the offhand confusion of Randy Newman, no small influence on Jones, and no master of elocution either. Specially imported to play synthesizer on one album cut, Newman was asked what he thought of the song. "Can't tell," he replied. "Couldn't understand a word...