Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's up in the mail room? The mail, for one thing: our letter writers are setting a torrid pace so far this year. The first-quarter total was an eye-glazing 18,806 letters, e-mails and faxes (and yes, we read every blessed one of them, and some of them twice). For you real numbers junkies, that's 8% more than what we bagged this time last year...
...Standard & Poor's 500 by 15% or more. Last week the reading was down to 76%. That hardly points to a party to which everyone's been invited. Still, many believe this is the start of a trend that will see a greater number of stocks step up the pace, while those that have been so popular over the past few years slow down...
...attention to the contrasting dynamics of the different movements. Corigliano's "Voyage for String Orchestra" was hauntingly beautiful and executed with similar panache, its ethereal solos seemlessly interwoven despite their brevity. Elkie's "Allegro Troppo for String Orchestra" showcased the technical mastery the ensamble's musicans. At a vivace pace, spiccatos were crisp and clean though after the piece hits the ten-minute mark, the bows start to settle into a repetitious hard grind against the instruments. Dvorak's "Serenade for strings in E major" is a perennial favorite; and as the Player's finale piece it did not disappoint...
Kennedy joined the organization in 1984. For the past several years, he has also taught environmental law at Pace University in New York, where he gives law students a first-hand taste of pollution litigation...
...still here, and without it, journalistic obsolescence looms (yawns? festers? creeps in petty pace? click one). So this reporter sets out (urls forth?) onto the Internet. And what does he discover...