Word: swing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final results will be announced today, but because the swing votes are expected to go to CCA candidates, Harshbarger has little chance of gaining a slot...
...should go off it. That's the problem. When people begin to go off the strictest form of the diet, they have to be extremely careful as they increase the amount of carbos and dramatically cut back on fats. For most people, this is too much of a metabolic swing, and weight regain is all too common. The more moderate diets of Sears and the Hellers--cutting carbohydrates by about one-third and eating moderate amounts of fat, preferably monosaturated ones like olive oil--are more gentle to the system...
...several years in the future, but the way I see it, it's never too early to measure for draperies.) Like lots of parents, I assume that my kid's childhood will neatly end at the campus gates, at which time I will join the Peace Corps, take swing-dancing lessons and never again utter the words "Why? Because I said so!" But the transition from childhood to college is seldom smooth for parents or their offspring, who face life for the first time without curfews, vegetables or clean laundry--and with plenty of social and academic pressure...
...problem is, the album doesn't swing. Ferry's winking suaveness would seem perfectly suited to these tunes, but instead Ferry merely comes across as an oddly restrained lounge singer, tired of singing the same songs for the umpteenth time. There's none of the gusto or the delicious abandon of his other covers, and the minimal production on the album doesn't help matters: the horns never are quite brassy enough, and Ferry's voice sounds muted at points. Instead of being languidly wistful, as one presumes he intended, "Falling in Love Again" and "Where or When" is merely...
...innovation of the foot pedal, playing the timpani remains a delicate and complex job. Each timpani is different, and in addition, each spot on the taut drumhead has a slightly different tuning, tension and response. And the tuning is still an uncertain science, performed with the orchestra in full swing around the timpanists. They have to find the perfect pitch despite the tooting and sawing of their neighbors and without losing track of the conductor. If you see them stooping over the drumhead during the concert as though they were whispering into a gargantuan ear, that's because they...