Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone home with newsmakers and interview... Even in bed (see page 152)." The editor claims that they make our days With a "poignant profile" or a "sassy phrase." Now, that's what I like in a magazine Sassy not a Woodward or a Bernstein. People has all the stars that give me pains in the neck --It's a Paperback Elaine's. They picked the "Top Celebs of the Decade." And there are ten. (Can you have a celeb spayed...
...into question the neutrality of the university." Two months ago, the Stanford faculty senate voted unanimously in favor of requiring the proposed center to operate under "normal academic governance" (meaning that appointments would be approved by Stanford's regular academic committees). Hoover fellows made an acronym of that phrase and turned it into a taunt...
...home in a scientist's laboratory than on a stage. In 1968 Wendy Carlos (then Walter, before a sex change) used a Moog for the album Switched-On Bach, a fetching electronic counterfeit that alerted musicians to the instrument's possibilities. Carlos, however, had to synthesize each phrase individually and put the whole thing together on tape, a laborious, time-consuming process. By contrast, today's advanced digital synthesizers, such as the Synclavier and the Fairlight (typical cost: $30,000) are easier to play, far more versatile and smaller than a Hammond organ. In 1982 more than...
...brassy and absolutely clear singing inspired metaphors like "a chorus of taxi horns," but words never quite captured its unique qualities. Her trademark was the seemingly effortless ability to sustain a note so long that the orchestra could play phrase after phrase of the melody. Said the Merm: "I take a breath when I have to." What she called her "take-charge" manner was so unlike the spun sugar of other musical-comedy performers that composers shaped songs for her. Among the standards that still call her voice to memory are You're the Top from Anything Goes...
...fiercely proud, and they want people to love their country," says Ueberroth. "This is what has to happen in Los Angeles for our Games to be successful." Among his new resolutions: to increase language services. "The Yugoslavs even gave Berlitz courses to cab drivers so they know a phrase or two of English. It works...