Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Venezuelans began to spend an estimated $39 million last week as freely as if it were water. They crowded Caracas stores to buy U.S.-made pedal-operated jeeps for their small fry. They stormed bars to set up drinks for friends and strangers. They shopped for Christmas presents, clothes, champagne, even Canadian-grown Christmas trees. They dropped silver bolivars into the hands of garbagemen, messengers, menials. Even the poorest of them splurged on big hallacas (tamales made from corn, chicken, spices, meat and rice) and bottles...
Children of Revolution. By then, the party line had been changed. The orders from Moscow were to soft-pedal talk of revolution, work surreptitiously, bore into labor, into Roosevelt's New Deal. It was the beginning of the Pink Decade, when communism hid its face behind a hundred bland fronts, and thousands of U.S. citizens-the well-meaning, the intellectual, the starry-eyed and the muddleheaded-flocked around its feet...
...recalls the era and atmosphere of The Front Page. It is paced for excitement and punctuated with humor, and it offers a small army of well-etched and well-acted minor characters. Like a certain style of pianist, Kingsley keeps hitting wrong notes and is much too fond of pedal; but he bangs out a spirited tune...
Joyce Redman plays at the level of the script, in tragedy-queen style with plenty of pedal; and whether right or not for Anne, is completely right for Anderson...
...listener. In the Presto of the Partita in B Minor, his fingers literally clicked over the strings, picking out every sixteenth note, even giving each a slight vibrate. Loveliest of all was the Andante of the last work. Schneider never overdid the sentiment, and the steady beat of the pedal point through the melody held the music to a moving, but ever-calm reserve...