Word: riotousness
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...disparate musical materials into a distinctive, stylish whole. There is a vigorous first movement, which tips its hat to the opening of the Bartok Second Violin Concerto, a haunting, elegaic slow movement inspired by a mournful tune Bolcom heard whistled on the New York City subway and a riotous finale that is an homage to the late jazz fiddler Joe Venuti. Bright and accessible, the concerto is steeped in a popular idiom. "You don't have to tell people what it means," observes Luca, who is Rumanian born and Israeli raised. "The wonderful thing about playing it is that...
...Under the Sabotage Act, the Terrorism Act, the Internal Security Act, the Riotous Assemblies Act, and the Unlawful Organizations Act, the government can arrest whom it wishes and keep them in prison incommunicado, denying all access by lawyers, family, and friends for as long as deemed necessary..." (Pogrund, "The Anatomy of White Power," Atlantic, October...
ENTERTAININGLY VENGEFUL "GAGS" TO PLAY ON THEM WHEN HE DISCOVERS how he has been used. But the riotous imaginations of Writers Robert T. Megginson and Gregory Fleeman don't stop there. They overplot to the point of incomprehensibility, and Director Robert Mandel's staging is often implausible. F/X is a fast-food movie: easy to grab, fun to consume, but loaded with empty calories and soon expelled from memory...
That is just a sample of the riotous legal humor in the Harvard Law School Drama Society's annual fall musical revue, which opened last night at Pound Hall...
...within. The suit against Maurizio is only the latest family feud to land in the courts. In 1982, Aldo was sued by his son Paolo, 54, formerly Gucci's chief designer, who accused his father, brothers and cousin Maurizio of beating him up to settle an argument during a riotous board of directors meeting...