Word: streamingly
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...change horses in midstream," Mario Cuomo tells us. But Clinton and Gore were not the horse that brought us across the stream--the American people made the great economic current that pushed Clinton and Gore safely to shore. And now the latter brag at how they used the spurs and whip...
...change is in order: the stream has been crossed, the horse should buck, throw off the old and get a new rider, one worthy of it. Of us. That man in this race would be Bush, the gentleman from Texas...
...Schuller's love of both the classical and jazz idioms prompted him to envision a reconciliation and integration of the two. At a lecture at Brandeis University in 1957, he coined the term "Third Stream." Influenced by compositions of Milhaud, Honneger and Krenek from the 1920s, as well as Ellington, Woody Herman and the more recent experiments of Stan Kenton, Schuller "realized that there was already a potential development and tradition, which could and should lead to the coming together of classical and jazz, which essentially were being segregated by the institutions of music. I call it Third Stream because...
...Schuller has no particular sound or aesthetic ideal when it comes to Third Stream music. "It's totally open; that's the whole beauty. I'm not interested in anything that's closed. We all approached it in different ways. It's a music which enables the creation of unique musical profiles." Indeed, compositions as diverse as Milton Babbitt's dodecaphonic All Set and John Lewis' Three Little Feelings are both considered Third Stream. Reflecting on what has become of the movement, Schuller says, "Now it's become like 10,000th stream, because ethnic and folk and vernacular music...
...view a character gone insane. This perspective serves a dual purpose. First, it can allow the reader or viewer to more closely follow the inner development of a person in the throes of madness, a development that to an outside observer may simply appear a continuous and unchanging stream of irrational behavior. Second, it creates a type of dramatic development in the audience itself. Even if the condition of the central character remains constant, the way in which that condition is viewed can be manipulated and changed by the author or director so as to bring the audience from...