Word: pleasingness
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This vintage, made up almost entirely of the Sangiovese, boasts a conspicuous ruby color. It is a naive, domestic Chianti, yet amusing in its presumptuousness. Its ample aromatic nose of red fruit produces strong, ripe expressions of cherry. It nestles softly in the mouth, with a warm Gem¸tlichkeit...
King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth were so pleased with the Hudson locomotive on the train that carried them across Canada on their 1939 royal tour that they granted the title Royal to a group of Hudson locomotives. One of these, Locomotive 2860, traveled proudly through British Columbia...
Performers take to New Tonalist pieces like pols to an open mike, but many critics bristle at the pieces' crowd-pleasing traditionalism. An unsympathetic Dallas reviewer brushed off Liebermann's unabashedly tuneful Second as "excruciatingly conventional." Retorts the composer: "That's like criticizing a novelist because his grammar is correct...
But for the most part, the songs on this UK-top-10 album use the music as a point of departure, and that approach works. In Handel's "Largo from Xerxes," the sounds drift by: shimmering chords, spacey burbles, eerie bells, groans, rumbles, tinkling chimes, thumping bass and more. This...
Keeping a constant finger on the pulse of America, these stores have given up the traditional paper gift certificate of yesteryear for a more modern substitute. Seen as much more convenient for the customer as well as being environmentally friendly, these cards boast aesthetically pleasing designs and varying rainbow color...