Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early as 1888 there were nearly 500 tennis courts in the country), Czechoslovaks have dominated major tennis competitions in recent years, making a virtual sweep of last year's U.S. Open. Says Frantisek Pala, head coach of the national team: "Twenty years ago, parents told their children, 'Play piano.' Now it's 'Play tennis.' And we are getting results...
...irremediable tedium, she and her husband Brian, a lawyer in Boston, agree to an amicable divorce. Anna gets custody of Molly, 3, and child support from Brian, whose firm is transferring him to Washington. Settling with her daughter into a Cambridge apartment, Anna hopes to support herself by giving piano lessons and taking a part-time job running rats through mazes at a local university...
...said, "Few men in our melancholy age brought so much pleasure to so many people." Loewe, 85 and living in Palm Springs, Calif., sent a letter addressing Lerner. "It won't be long," he said, "before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there...
...staging of the film is also effective. In a clever scene that opens the movie, Prince plays at a dim cafe piano, seducing patrons with his eyes and music as Benton passes him notes urging him on. In another scene, Prince sits in the back of a car, silent and out of focus, waiting for Scott-Thomas to admit she loves...
...Gould's early career (1960) to one month before he died (1982), does not mean that they're not fascinating, and sometimes even beautiful. It does mean, however, that this set is worth buying only if you either love Gould's playing, or want to listen to little-known piano music of Sibelius and Strauss...