Word: serializer
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Someone Named Joe. By then the snub-nosed Iver Johnson eight-shot revolver, model 55 SA?a relatively cheap weapon that retails for $31.95?was yielding information. The serial number had been registered with the State Criminal Identification and Investigation Bureau. Within minutes, the bureau's computer system came up with the pistol's original purchaser: Albert L. Hertz of Alhambra. He had bought the gun for protection in August 1965, after the Watts riot. He informed police that he had subsequently given it to his daughter, Mrs. Robert Westlake, then a resident of Pasadena. Mrs. Westlake became uneasy...
...Bubbles") Silverman. At three, she sings and tap-dances on the Saturday morning children's radio program, Uncle Bob's Rainbow House. At seven, she joins the Major Bowes' Capital Family Hour. At eleven, she does 36 weeks as a singing mountain girl on the radio serial Our Gal Sunday, and performs one of radio's first singing commercials, "Rinso White, Rinso White, happy little washday song...
...thing, the impact of human pollutants on nature can be vastly amplified by food chains, the serial process by which weak creatures are typically eaten by stronger ones in ascending order. The most closely studied example is the effect of pesticides, which have sharply improved farm crops but also caused spectacular kills of fish and wildlife. In the Canadian province of New Brunswick, for example, the application of only one-half pound of DDT per acre of forest to control the spruce budworm has twice wiped out almost an entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi...
They had. Knussen is only 15. He began his First Symphony just before his 14th birthday and finished it six months later. What impressed the public, critics and professionals alike was the symphony's bold self-assurance, its thoroughly contemporary sound and free use of serial techniques, its lack of conscious imitation-even though it does contain a few friendly pokes at Mahler and Messiaen, "who," says the youngster, "use the cymbal, bass and drum in a vulgar...
Miroir soars and sparkles on occasion, but fails to sustain a high level of quality throughout. The piece's major fault is that it lacks any logic to carry the listener through. The serial composition is by the composer's own admission, a musical almanac "going from Beethoven to Schoenberg in five minutes." Harmonically it shows a startling resourcefulness, both tonal and non-tonal. Particularly amusing was the recurrence of a particularly slushy theme, either because of the humorous contrast with Pousseur's art, or perhaps due to its explicit banality in the Pousseur context...