Word: tenuousness
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...conversation or in writing. He is interested in the relationship between the public and private aspects of art. He sees installations like the one at the Fogg as a way of "making public what I've done in a very private way." One senses the gap in this tenuous communicative linkage--Long's message is not easy to decipher...
...lyrics to music for a mail-order house; Anthony Braxton used to hustle chess in Washington Square. A few fortunate musicians have found niches in education-- Ran Blake and Ken McIntyre head departments at the New England Conservatory and at SUNY Old Westbury. Alternative education centers offer a tenuous existence to some, like Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio in Woodstock and River's Soho performance loft, both of which depend on a precarious assortment of grants and private donations for support. Life on the road is still possible, but it takes a lot of luck and effort to overcome...
...point, the Crimson Clung to a tenuous 4-3 lead, fifth-slotted Geordie Lemmon trailed 0-1 in games, and 1-8 in the second contest. But Lemmon showed his mettle by rebounding to reel off nine straight points, and thereafter had little trouble disposing...
...crackle of gunfire and mortars has long been a normal sound of life in war-scarred Lebanon, where rival Palestinians, Muslim leftists and Christian Phalangists warily coexist under the watchful eyes of 30,000 Syrian peacekeeping troops. Last week the tenuous three-year-old truce in Lebanon was once again broken by sporadic fighting after Syria announced that it would soon reduce its policeman's role in Beirut. At the same time, the Damascus government said that it would move some of its Beirut-based forces into the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon to buttress Syria...
Five minutes before the celebrations could begin, with the United States Olympic hockey team clinging to a tenuous 4-3 lead over the heavily-favored squad from the Soviet Union, coach Herb Brooks could be heard above the din of 8500 frenzied fans. "Play your game!" he shouted at his players, "Play your game...