Word: protractedness
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After 13 variations evoking in turn Bach, George Winston and Liszt, Rzewski plunged from a protracted Beethovenian trill into a truly staggering display of improvised fire-works for his cadenza. In a few minutes Rzewski demonstrated his command of Harlem stride bass, cartoonish sound effects, and Chopinesque fabric melody, while...
Healy, who said that this public evaluation process was unprecedented and "a lot more extended and protracted than most," said he is growing weary of the evaluation. "I'll be, happy when it's over," he said.
Valley fever does not spread from person to person but is contracted by inhaling airborne spores from the fungus, which is endemic to dry areas of the American West and Southwest as well as parts of northern Mexico and Central and South America. Face masks offer only limited protection against...
The cast and crew are entirely equal to the challenge of such an over-indulgent tale. They revel in the play. Modern productions of hardcore Elizabethan shlock tend to degenerate into a protracted joke at the expense of the crude plot. But Skin and Bone avoids this temptation. Rather than...
The protracted debate over local Russians has distracted Baltic leaders' attention from other issues. A majority of the 1.8 million ethnic Russians are faced with the prospect of becoming unwelcome foreigners. In Lithuania, where the alien population of 20% poses little threat, all inhabitants received instant citizenship. But in Estonia...