Word: supplee
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And there the typewriter has stayed, with an all but total disregard for the way hands and people are put together. The keyboard favors southpaws by placing most frequently used letters on the left. Thumbs are underused; weak, and less supple, little fingers must shift from upper to lower case...
Tubin's Tenth, written in Stockholm in 1973, rollicks and lilts. It provides a smooth connection between Brahms' parody of German schoolboys' drinking songs and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, which, its composer wrote, captures the Russian alcoholic soul. Tubin, born in Kallaste, Estonia in 1905, moved to Sweden in 1944...
In a blizzard of flower petals, balloons, confetti and bravoes, she dipped her final curtsy with all the grace and enfolding gaiety that have made her the country's favorite diva. It was her last hurrah as an opera singer. For more than a quarter of a century audiences...
Steel understands and displays Lippmann's virtues as a journalist: an elegant and supple prose style and a mind that quickly perceived the fundamental components of any issue or crisis. His celebrated Olympian detachment served him and his readers well; amid the hubbub and uproar of daily events, Lippmann...
While Alexeyev struggles with the snatch, Rakhmanov comes out and starts to warm up. Briskly, efficiently, he snatches one weight, orders it increased, then hoists again with equal ease. Still .young enough to curl his back and lift with supple grace, he has clearly surpassed Alexeyev. The room reverberates with...