Word: snaring
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Correctly foreseeing that the U.S. faces a decade of sharply increasing demands for shelter, many big corporations are devising cost-cutting ways to snare a share of the market. Urban Systems Development Corp., a newly formed subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric, is building a project of 100 town houses in Montgomery County, Md. Crane Co. is building whole bathrooms, and Borg-Warner has devised a bathroom-kitch-en module for use in slum rehabilitation. Both United States Gypsum and National Gypsum Co. have experimented with rehabilitation, and U.S.G. branched out earlier this year by investing $1,000,000 in a Memphis...
...central character, a mysterious psychiatrist called Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly, who is given to gin-and-water and gnomic observations, is played by Sydney Walker with a kind of arch exaggeration that would surely prove more off-putting than compelling to the delicate souls he is out to snare...
...jump around like I do to get the kids jumping too. Look at the other group they just stood there. They were playing too complicated, too static, very difficult to get that off the ground." He turned to Waller "I really like it when you tap on the snare and do the tom-tom at the same time. Its really deep you know what I mean." Again the bewitching London accent...
...composer, Kraft, 44, obviously is not afraid to be bold theatrically. The huge rear screen, on which the films were projected, was not the only innovation. At the end of the first movement, Kraft provided a brief interlude of jazz in which a solo violinist and snare drummer were picked out by spotlights in the darkened hall. Then at the end, he bid the audience a cheerful adieu with the rippling tinkle of an offstage jazz quartet...
...passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...