Word: petalled
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...less mastered, while achieving some success at its inversion, the backward swizzle. I went home elated and then was tickled to find an ice-skating movie on cable called The Cutting Edge. In the movie, the Russian coach counsels his ice dancers, "Douglas, you are stem. Katia, you are petal. Together, you make flower." I was starting to feel a little floral myself--until the next lesson...
...fresh, the music is new to Burns, who, he has said, knew almost nothing about jazz until an offhand remark by a baseball player being interviewed for his previous series set him to thinking and got him listening. The rest of us can hear Ellington play The Single Petal of a Rose or Parker lay into Cherokee and be stirred by mute wonder. Burns doesn't have to go the mute route. He gets to extend and explore all those feelings, amplify them and put them all onto what may be the longest documentary PBS, or any other network...
PINK = coral, shell, watermelon, fire, orchid, petal...
...drum accompaniment dominate its sound. Secondary are its guitar and keyboard effects. Together, the album's layered music makes for a laid back, chill sound. Along with Heasley, guest musicians Kyoici Shiino on drums, K-U-D-O on electronics, Neville Marphie for percussion and Genichi Tamura on petal steel guitar join Natural Calamity. The songs for the album were mixed in various studios, and a couple forms of two of the songs appear on Peach Head...
Happily, this was a problem NASA had foreseen. In J.P.L.'s so-called sandbox, a roomful of Mars-like rock and soil with a mock-up lander and rover, the engineers had rehearsed a fairly straightforward maneuver that called for Pathfinder to raise one petal, tilting the entire craft 45[degrees], retract the deflated bag further and then lower the petal. The signal to execute the maneuver was sent up shortly before Earth set over the Martian horizon, breaking the communications link until dawn; just before the connection was actually severed, a picture came back confirming that the command...