Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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February 14, 1985 (seventh grade...
...room at home is pink. Pink bedspread, pink pillows, pink ruffled curtains. Tiny pink flowers all over the wallpaper. When I was in sixth grade and moving into a new house, I thought a pink room might be nice. In seventh grade, I reconsidered. But it was already too late...
...series of 14 variations on the slow movement of Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata, with an optional opportunity for an improvised cadenza before the final variation. The theme itself is not stated anywhere in the piece, and one catches only a few glimpses of it throughout--an occasional dominant seventh chord, or the five-note descending scale that concludes each half of the Beethoven movement. Rather than indulging in much direct quotation, Rzewski's variations preserve certain abstract qualities of the original. Beethoven's registral disjuncture, for example, is taken to extremes, and the thick, closed chords of the theme, which...
Jeremy Geidt as Captain Shotover provides the best of the performances. He looks--intentionally or otherwise--like Shaw himself, with beetling brows and jutting white beard. Shotover is an 88-year-old man seeking to discover "the seventh level of concentration" through rum and running away from anything that upsets him. As the self-appointed captain of the ship, he is too old and infirm to be able to save it from destruction...
Freidel published six biographies of the former president, the last in 1990, and was working on a seventh at the time of his death...