Word: pedaling
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...this follows the actual trial is for the official records to say. But there is a sense of forcing the high notes and of holding them too long. That trials are proverbially good theater is no accident: theater minds and legal minds equally highlight and soft-pedal to a purpose, equally employ shock and diversionary tactics. And they can equally breed doubts while scoring points: often vivid, Levitt's play does not really satisfy as a whole...
Mayday. In Lausanne, Switzerland, alarmed by the number of attacks on taxi drivers, police considered a special pedal for cabs that, when pressed, locks all the doors except the driver's, stops the motor, releases a capsule of suffocating gas, blows the horn, starts a flashing light...
Wires & Wax. The cheating was an old story. In the cheaper shops where the ignorant or the unwary traded, callous butchers were caught using a variety of methods. Some merely weighed their thumbs with the meat. Some attached a wire from the scale to a foot pedal that they controlled from below, or blocked the customer's side of the scale with canned goods, or laid meat on a long sheet of waxed paper, then pulled on the end of the paper to increase the weight reading. Others weighed one cut of meat but substituted an inferior or smaller...
Joel Sachs was the soloist, and though he was always musical his Bach seemed to me too fragile in places and too brusque in others. The employment of a Debussy pianissimo with generous use of the pedal is not always ideally suited to the baroque style. Yet Mr. Sachs showed he could play firmly and resonantly if he chose, even in mezza voce. The orchestral sections were rhythmical and well phrased...
...Serenade en la (1925) is not Stravinsky at his best. It has a number of very haunting places; but there are some dull stretches that the proper self-criticism would have eliminated or rewritten. Archibald gave its four movements a clear and clean performance, with very little pedal...