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...easygoing (and a bit less precise) than most top U.S. orchestras. They bowed their strings lightly, making bright, pure threads of sound. The brasses were not particularly powerful, but they sounded as mellow as if the instruments were made of soft copper. The horns-prone in any orchestra to skid off their notes-were as secure as a pipe organ...
...storm took at least four lives and possibly more yesterday, grounded two major airlines at Logan, and caused hundreds of creeping cars to skid into accidents. Today's highest temperature will not rise above the middle thirties, and the general overcast should not clear up until tomorrow morning...
These repairs are part of an overall renovation plan started in Widener last summer. The project brought a new floor in the basement, as well as the installation of ralls on the stairs. The stairs themselves are now equipped with non-skid steps...
...himself remained a bawling, rough-cut outlander from Aspen, Colo. A catty old friend, Alexander Woollcott, once described him as looking like "a dishonest Abe Lincoln." Rumpled, wild-haired and irascible, Ross talked in an ear-splitting voice, a combination of rasp and quack. He often expressed himself in skid-row profanity, or by mere grunts or gap-toothed grins. He had the energy of a bull, and a bull-like charm. Though he often sounded as crass as a cymbal, he had an amazing sensitivity for words, a pouncing eye for the phony, a rigorous taste...
There are several skid row citizens around every Sunday to start the all rolling. Feeney has names for all of them: "Wallpaper Willie," Mustachioed Louie," "Frothing Joe," "Foamin' Roman," "Muggsy Malone," and "Benny Balloon." His group of devotees stand around him in a circle. The crowd, and the sight of this small, black-frocked, white-haired man standing above it, attracts others, and soon, there is a sizeable mob of people listening intently, whether they agree or not. Feeney is there every week, no matter the weather, and so is the crowd...