Word: repeaters
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...crowd of men, who peer at her, offer advice, listen or look with varying degrees of veiled prurience, and otherwise impose on her. In The Arts-Drawing, 1760, the old man is rhapsodizing over her work as though she were a gifted parrot learning, at last, to repeat a phrase, while the supercilious drawing master points to the model she must copy. In the crammed, tilted space, the heads on their distorted bodies swell grotesquely, like pale masks. Every detail of costume is there-one could dress an opera from Traversi-but the whole has gone awry: we gaze into...
...become more concerned now with melody, but I'm also very interested in what I call questions of large design, the sequence of the way things happen in a piece. The sense of new discourse is very important. Composers who go dry do so because they repeat their forms, not because they repeat their melodic or harmonic idiosyncrasies...
What Americans fear more than anything else is a repeat of Viet Nam. This proposal would effectively eliminate such a possibility, while ensuring that our nation is adequately prepared for a genuine defense emergency. Our volunteer forces would then be available to man the outposts...
...delaying replacement of their old cars, but at some point they will be forced to take them off the road. The new voluntary restrictions on Japanese auto exports should also eventually help the sale of American models. But it may be a while before lacocca will be able to repeat last week's profit announcement...
...adequate for their age, but straining to hear well can drain their energies. Some years ago, Rabbitt did studies for the British Post Office showing that sounds heard through low levels of noise are difficult to recapture. "If you are listening through crackle," he says, "even if you can repeat what is said, you can't remember it as well." By the same token, elderly people with a minor hearing problem may have to concentrate so much to pick up a voice that they forget the contents of the sentence...