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...Mortuis in Lingua Mortua” (“With the Dead in a Dead Language”). The only real disappointment came with “Il Vecchio Castello” (“The Old Castle”). The simple, lilting 6/8 trochaic rhythm was stretched out with too much rubato, completely obliterating the evocations of Medieval troubadours and trouvères. Despite this flaw, Kissin still managed to play one of the most problematic and unidiomatic piano works like it was the easiest thing in the world, without changing a single note (unlike Horowitz, whose infamous reworking...
...took us a little time to settle into a rhythm. Once we did, we just kept eating up distance,” Omartian said. “I think we’re going to do very well this season, and hopefully we’ll win the Eastern Sprints...
...terrorist - or terrorists - who attacked with envelopes full of anthrax powder turned out to be as savvy and sophisticated as the ones who hijacked four U.S. airliners full of jet fuel. In a world whose circadian rhythm is now set by the 24-hour news cycle, the anthrax attacker(s) knew - or maybe they've now discovered - that the best way to create an instant media frenzy over terror was to send the deadly letters to the media...
...Jellin, who posted a match-high 15 digs, the Harvard defense held Cornell to a sub-par .176 kill percentage in the first game. However, the offense could not get into a rhythm, and Cornell squeaked by Harvard, 30-27, to take game...
...night at the Roxy, they came to abandon something. For one evening, they came to let go of the details of their lives, the clutter of things and people that bind them to place and to the inertia of their day-to-day existence. They threw themselves into the rhythm and followed it wherever it took them. And for a few brief moments, they actually believed they were lost, that there was nowhere and nothing but the music rising in them...