Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rivera himself spends most of the tune in the upper register of his alto, getting a soprano-like sound from it. His raw and driving post-bop sound combines with Roditi's bright, powerful trumpet as well as Portinho's samba beat and bassist Lincoln Goines, who is another Tania Maria veteran, uses his instrument to duplicate the sound of the surdo drum, the heart and soul of the samba...
...senior members of the 16-member board of directors of Continental Illinois Corporation, for decades one of the nation's most powerful banks. The move is the latest step taken by the FDIC following its bailout of Continental Illinois last spring, and, in view of its unconventional nature, should sound a warning to the entire industry. It should also raise questions about responsibility to shareholders and the accountability of directors for actions that might have catastrophic consequences...
Robert R. Barker '36, a Manhattan businessman and member of the executive committee: "I think it's--it's gonna sound corny--the greatest university in the world . . . Also, three of my four young people have gone there, and I know first hand how good...
...been under fire, I live through every shot again and have the wildest visions," he noted, having confessed the secret of how beautiful war can seem in the stops between its terrors: "The circular trembling aperture of the French and Belgian searchlights, like a transcendental airplane . . . the amazing apocalyptic sound of the giant cannon . . . A rider at full gallop in the dark . . . Poor pig that I am, I can only live in dreams." War went beyond art and burned out his fantasies. What it left behind was a hard, copious ash of realism, and an unassuageable will to describe what...
There are sound reasons for such a project. Full-length ballets do better at the box office than evenings of shorter pieces. The Joffrey, never a company in robust financial health, turned naturally to the work of the late John Cranko because the Joffrey had success when it staged his Taming of the Shrew. Similarly, A.B.T. went to MacMillan, who signed on five months ago as "artistic associate" to Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov. Each organization claimed ignorance of the other's plans until it was too late to change them. The result is that audiences in Washington, Los Angeles...