Word: stringings
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Gold's alliance with Pottery Barn was just the first in a string of special relationships with retailers that has given him unmatched access to middle-class American households and has impressed industry watchers. "It's quite unusual to have captured them to the extent that he has," says Donna Warner, veteran editor of urban-style bible Metropolitan Home. These relationships come partly from connections Gold made during his stint as a buyer: when Pottery Barn decided to start carrying furniture, a friend there made sure its buyers knew about Gold and vice versa. He has also consistently backed...
...what you will about the liberties the bond string quartet takes with a piece of classical music, you can't fault its sexually charged performances for being off key. Off color, yes. A bond concert is a melodic lap dance: the four sylphs do energetic things with their orchestral instruments, not to mention their hips, that would compel Stradivari to order an exorcism. One does not learn to straddle a cello that way at a conservatory...
...hard to blame any one of them for wanting a career beyond second chair in the string section of the Shropshire Philharmonic. Give the prodigies their props: bond's music is not warmed-over Bach. The playlist for their Asian tour contains but one classical cover: Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Most tunes are original compositions by Westerhoff, Eos and contemporary New Age songwriters...
...into pop singing, as Vanessa-Mae has. "Few people have gone into this area of music, so it's natural to compare us to her," Eos, 26, says. "But that's okay. She's nice. She bought us some champagne when we bumped into her in Switzerland." Reinventing the string quartet is sweaty work?but it has its perks...
...suite is a passionate outburst that is moving and poignant when considering individual panels and overwhelming when experienced in its entirety. While each concentrated gathering of paint and drips is reference to the violence and destruction of Lepanto, they are also a string of erotic encounters, an invocation of sexual climax and release. Twombly brilliantly makes us see the aggression in love and the eroticism in violence...