Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country" where he would win a gold medal), Cliburn put in a grueling two months of six-to-eight-hours-a-day practice. During this period he may have sharpened some of the qualities that confounded Moscow critics: emotional nuances and inflections such as are normally heard only from string players; the special ghostly sonority that he can draw from the piano, as in the first movement of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3; fast passages that combine a feathery sound with perfect, unblurred articulation...
...could lose its shirt if it backed a long string of bad pictures. But Krim and Benjamin, whose U.A. holdings are worth $6,500,000, are protected by the fact that, in addition to owning a piece of the pictures, they get 32% of the gross rentals for distributing them. They have a further hedge in their TV operations, have the TV rights to 200 films they have distributed so far, plus 45% of Associated Artists Productions, which owns the Warner Brothers' pre-1950 library...
Princeton defeated the varsity rugh team, 6 to 0, Saturday, ending the Crimson's string of eleven consecutive league victories. However, the win cost the Tigers two broken noses and a fractured collarbone...
...varsity third crew bested the Amherst varsity by half a length and the second string lightweights defeated the Lord Jeff J.V. crew by a scant 35 seconds...
Morality Play. Not that Fielding is a prude: "For the most rugged, down-to-bare-facts night life on the continent of Europe-at decent prices and under non-clip conditions, too-Hamburg wins the diamond-studded G-string by 6 bumps and 24 grinds." It is not raw flesh but raw deals that make Fielding's blood boil: "Of all the groups of surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians we've met in our travels, the Venetian gondoliers take our personal booby prize." Fielding's Guide is fun because he writes a kind of frivolous morality play...