Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...composers, its talent for mimicry has made it a cost-effective, ersatz orchestra. Classical musicians, who play a largely 18th and 19th century repertory, are unlikely ever to be cashiered, but others are not so lucky. Complains Violinist Paul Shure, a California studio musician: "Synthesizers have all but ruined string players in recordings." Five years ago, Don Butterfield, a New York City tubist, played about 150 television and radio commercials a year, a lucrative source of income for a freelancer; today, he averages fewer than...
Then, sometime before the witch and the priest unloosed their awful revenge on the pristine jungle things started to change. One character threw out a string of Bond Jokes; his love answered, "Roger." The Man of the Year, being human, laughed. The audience kept drinking. The Belles did their schtick, then stripped down to yellow stain bikinis and did it again...
...place in the Secretariat and catapulted him into the Politburo's inner circle at the tender age of 49. Continuing failures on the farm have cut short the careers of past agricultural experts, but Gorbachev appears to be flourishing even though he has presided over a string of bad harvests (before the much improved 200 million-ton yield...
Still, even Soviet servicemen equipped with the best Soviet weaponry often fall short of the Pentagon's image of the Soviet military as a fighting force. On paper, for example, Soviet air-defense forces command a string of 7,000 radar installations and 2,300 interceptor jets. Yet the fact that two Korean civilian aircraft were able to stray into Soviet airspace without being rapidly intercepted suggests that the defense shield is sievelike in spots...
NORMAN REVEALS a bewildering predilection for nursery rhymes in Traveler-this theme is carried over to Heidi Landesman's set, which features a gingerbread house and a fanciful Mother Goose garden. Sam quotes and analyzes nursery rhymes at great length, and the result is a tedious and heavy-handed string of tired metaphors describing the aforementioned Big Concepts. The funny one-liners which permeate the play also lose their effect after two repetitive hours...