Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feline-hating World War I flying ace. Lucy Van Pelt (Ann Henry) is the obnoxious big-sister and homespun-psychiatrist that we've come to expect. Blanket-armed Linus (Ron Duvernay), Lucy's brother, is an intellectual version of the picked-on innocent. And Schroeder (Biggs) and his piano, are sweetly in line with the musical prodigy Schultz penned. The only unrecognizable old-timer is Peppermint Patty (Jennifer Joss). In the strip she is a loveably irritating tomboy. Joss turns her into a shallow, bubbly valley-girl...
Move to the library, where members are reading literary criticism magazines or books from the collection of old volumes sitting on decaying book shelves. Test the grand piano in the corner. The walls are covered with pictures of past Signet gatherings, mostly at one of the two big dinners held for present and past members each year...
...bright, straightforward youth, with a special talent for languages, mathematics and the piano, who would be an interesting lad even if his dad did not happen to be Soviet Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In Palm Beach, Fla., last week, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, 13, played in his most formal concert yet, performing Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Soviet Emigre Orchestra. Only 18 months old when his father was exiled, the boy has thrived at his family's isolated home in Cavendish, Vt., where he began playing at age six and still practices between schoolwork for three hours a day. How does...
...minutes later another reason for Sergy's apprehension became apparent. Olga, eight-years-old, burst into the room, grinning at us, cager to pose for a picture. Her mother explained to us that Olga is "very gifted in everything." When Olga sat down at the piano and began to play one of her compositions, we realized that her mother's words reflected more than parental pride...
Olga has a piano teacher who does not know that Olga is a refusenik, and both parents fear that if the teacher finds out, she will cut off the lessons. And further visa applications could cause her status to become known to the teacher...