Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Around campus my suspicions were confirmed: suddenly I noticed more and more people were showing up to section with glasses. In late-night jaunts to the laundry room, countless more wore spectacles, admitting that they are closet contact-lens wearers. Friends began to complain how their vacation time would be dominated by trips to the optometrist and to pick out frames. My poor vision, for once, was not at fault; that number of eyes cannot be wrong. Harvard dorms are dangerously dim and campus vision is at stake...
...effortlessly threading his melody into that woven by the full orchestra. Every note in the cascading arpeggios of the concerto resounded under Han's steady fingertips, and the interchange between pianist and orchestra was seamless. Pausing to wipe his brow, cheeks and hands during every rest, Han attacked each section of Mendelssohn's work with unfaltering strength and decisiveness, even though the piece seems to be continually in transition, full of arpeggios and climbing scales. His energy was rewarded by waves of applause from the audience, who brought him back onstage twice after his initial departure...
...generally bright piece, the Vivace non troppo also started cheerfully with the frolicking melodies of the winds. The orchestra had a way to create an intense yet light tone, filled with their effortless performances of the difficult sections. The piece had a cute ending: three light short notes passed from the winds to strings in a playful way. The most noticeable aspect of the orchestra's performance however, was in the Adagio movement when the buildup of dynamic fortissimos provided a symphonic boom that one would expect only from an orchestra of a much larger scale. Yet, the sound...
Pornography peddlers are restricted by Boston law to sell their wares only along a stretch of Washington Street between the Downtown Crossing and Chinatown subway stops, a section of the city known as the "Combat Zone...
Bragging proudly to her listeners, Alice announces, "I've got Section Eight subsidized housing. We're living in a three-bedroom apartment that normally costs $1062 a month, but we're only paying...