Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jean-Louis Dumas won't sit still. He wants you to feel the sleeve of his cashmere jacket, listen to the ping of his crystal goblet, ponder the intricate pattern of his silk tie. He wants you to follow him out a side door of his elegant office and down a back staircase to a craftsman's workshop virtually unchanged since the 19th century. All the while, he is rhapsodizing, "This is amazing! This is unique! This is fantastique!" In the workshop, with a view across the roofs of Paris, a leatherworker hand-stitches one of four golf bags ordered...
...forth, thumb- and-forefinger method pioneered by Don Reno. Yet his technique is always at the service of a sophisticated musical imagination that can make the instrument sound as if it were born to play jazz. Unlike a guitar, a banjo cannot sustain a note for very long. ("Pop, ping, and then it's gone," Fleck says.) Yet on his ballad Sunset Road, Fleck creates an illusion of satiny, legato plangency. If you want one word for the album, call it mellow. Says Tony Trischka, his former teacher: "Bela Fleck is making the banjo safe for mass consumption...
Several major people-smuggling cases show how rewarding the business has become. Just since 1988, authorities have arrested 30 smugglers along the U.S.-Canadian border. The top gun: Cheng Chui-Ping, 41, a woman who was nabbed in Vancouver in December. Cheng, who began life as a peasant in southern China's Fujian province, has allegedly built a $30 million fortune by smuggling thousands of Chinese into New York City. Cheng has gone free on $50,000 bail, and officials fear that she is back in business. "Cheng is the biggest we've ever arrested, but she's not even...
...when the pressure was on, the Hawks adapted better to the fifth game's Ping-Pongesque rally scoring. which allows a team to win a point on its opponent's serve...
...Cabot Grill, for example, has an adjoining room which contains a pool table, a ping-pong table, three arcade games, a Foosball machine and a piano. The large-screen TV and VCR are in another room...