Word: swing
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...challenges, especially in the upper third, a steep (up to 55° grade), twisting course that runs through such expert skier's delights as "Hurricane Alley" and "Dynamite Corner." It is there the skier must show the technical virtuosity to survive the turns while building the momentum to swing down through the steep, screamingly fast (nearly 90 m.p.h.) middle section that eventually soothes to a long, final flat. "The secret," said Canada's Ken Read, "is to ski the top well. That's where the time is lost...
...resurgence in bands," he explains. "The age of the guitars is gone. After the Beatles, there were a few good groups, but most of them were turkeys." But what about his own style? "I never was a Dixieland player. I love it, but I play more of a swing style, a fast four-beat swing, and four-beat swing is what this band is going to be." Says Hirt: "I'm 57 years old, I've been playing for 51 and this is the sound I started with...
Reagan's campaign swing through seven Eastern and Southern states last week hummed with metronomic precision, as he sought to make up for his surprise loss to George Bush in Iowa. There were no important hitches and plenty of warm crowds-but also a certain lack of spontaneity, as if the veteran actor were playing an overfamiliar role. He hammered away at Carter's foreign policy, proposing one new American initiative after another. He mentioned as a possibility a blockade of Cuba-"Stop the shipment of everything in and out"-in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...swing last December...
...president of Baltimore's Peabody Institute from 1969 to 1977 and leader of New York City's nationally known Goldman Band for the past 24 seasons; after a long illness; in Baltimore. Though the dapper musician was 19 when he first led the march-and-swing ensemble that his father Edwin had founded in 1911, he started out pursuing loftier strains by studying composition and teaching at Manhattan's Juilliard School. When he took over the 56-member band in 1956, he had it play classics by Berlioz and Bach as well as newly commissioned pieces...