Word: tacking
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...ANOTHER TACK, Burton's piece also demonstrates contemporary music's diverse treatments of melodic lines and the 'flow' of a piece. The first movement proceeds by a multi-layered interlocking of individual wind outbursts, roughly comparable to a group of eight people taking turns reading successive words in a sentence. The second movement, in contrast, features a lyrical alto saxophone solo, with subtle accompaniment by the lower brasses. The quizzical third and final movement, however, takes the approach of 'white' sound--the musical term is meant to convey the combination of different light wavelengths into a perceived mixture of 'white...
...finance federal job-creating programs]. I wouldn't be surprised if certain tax reforms go in place early in his term-investment tax credits, faster [one or two years] write-offs for, say, pollution-control facilities, elimination of the double taxation of dividends." If Carter does take that tack, he is almost certain to draw enthusiastic support-and the investment dollars to back it up-from corporate board rooms and Chambers of Commerce throughout the country...
...higher than the $413 billion Congress has agreed to. Advisers to Democrat Jimmy Carter think that will not be enough to counteract the shortfall. TIME has learned that several of his economists are recommending tax cuts or new federal spending for early next year, should their man win-a tack encouraged in part by the Republican underspending...
...That was my country-terrible winds and a wonderful emptiness." The paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949), an artist ignored by the histories of American art, now seem the obvious relay station between the crags and glaciers of the 19th century sublime and the jagged forms of Clyfford Still. To a New York audience, Tack's extraordinarily subtle paintings, which mediate between abstraction and landscape imagery, will seem almost familiar -be cause they predict and predate so much American painting of the '50s. Even the rhetoric is familiar; one finds Tack in 1920 describing a 'valley...
...admires the verbal and thematic craftsmanship of the novels. Yet he refuses to separate the two genres and argues clearly and ingeniously the case for a stylistic and philosocphical continuity between them. Obviously his admiration for Celine the literary craftsman predominates and allows him to take this compromise tack. And, as he himself concedes, distance from the horrors of the '40s makes it easier to examine Celine's role in them calmly...