Word: pits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well-bred Southerner, district director Charles Baugh, who did everything he could to make them feel at home. Upstairs, IRS employees outnumbered concerned taxpayers, which necessitated still more flesh pressing. All those smiles and handshakes and salutations felt out of character. It was like having Kerri Strug as your pit boss...
...Street. The party tends to consist of maybe eight youngish men in identical dark suits. They take a table and drape their suit jackets over their chairbacks so that their red suspenders can be displayed. Then they wave around thick cigars as they shout at each other at trading-pit volume about what brand of single-malt Scotch they prefer...
Characterizing the crowd at Dinosaur Jr.'s show is a bit problematic: on one hand, the girl selling CDs at the back of the room had the requisite face piercings and don't-mess-with-me attitude; on the other hand, the mosh pit was full of drunken frat-boy types in Abercrombie cords and button-down shirts. Although periodic stage-rushes interrupted the general quietude, the scrunchie-clad and turtlenecked coeds who surfed the crowd looked like something out of 90210-goes-to-Seattle. It was puzzling, to say the least...
DiGregorio, on the other hand, compares the scene to the infamous "pit" in Harvard square, but notes that it is "more...
...about as professional as a high school band. Squeaky horns and missed notes grate on the ear, and the entire orchestra seems disjointed and badly synchronized: throughout the ballet, one can hear different sections starting and stopping where the transitions should have been smooth. Though easily overlooked, a good pit orchestra is absolutely essential to a good ballet, because the music truly is half the performance. A dancer draws energy from the music; when it's off, so is the magic...