Word: pedaled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towed back to its garage. The tow-truck driver told Parchamovsky to keep his foot on the brake to maintain a safe distance between truck and car. But when the Moskvich's brakes began to smoke, Parchamovsky took his foot off the pedal. At that instant, the truck braked abruptly to avoid a pedestrian. Result: one crumpled Moskvich right fender. At the rental agency, Parchamovsky was told what the outing would cost...
...audience that needed no warm-ups, had left the stage. The music started, but it wasn't the Dead; David Nelson, a short, blonde-whiskered man, stood stage-front with his guitar; Marmaduke played along and sang, and Jerry Garcia sat at the side playing the pedal-steel guitar. This was Nelson's band, the New Riders of the Purple Sage ( named for a Zane Grey novel ), a Western-Rock hybrid band that is a sideline for Garcia and one of the Dead's sub-groups. Before the Riders could start a second song, the fire doors at the back...
Local Totem. Superficially, I.V. still has the old hippie beguilement. Barefoot boys and braless girls pedal past on bicycles, mill joyously on the streets, hang around the local totem-an American flag-topped heap of wooden planks and tree trunks known as "the earth art market...
...sincerely believe that anyone requiring a machine to travel across our beaches, mountains and through our babbling brooks is in reality a weak person. He likely uses his feet little, except to press down the pedal, has very little appreciation of nature and no consideration for the thoughts of others who wish to escape our noise-ridden, smoggy cities...
...precisely what the piano does least well, since every note the pianist plays begin to decay instantly. The pianist, therefore, must give the illusion of sustaining sound, and for this he must call on a variety of resources: graduation of touch, suppleness of rhythm, and of course the pedal. The pianist has to be prepared to use the pedal very sensitively in order to realize the range and variety of sonorities in the music. In fact, I feel it is the swift changes in sonority which are most responsible for moving the music along; if they are slighted his music...