Word: trickyness
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THE PENOBSCOT and Passamaquoddy suit raises several tricky issues that have long lurked in the shadows of the American historical drama, but have never really gained center stage attention. Critics of the U.S. reservation program have compared it to the South African homeland policy. As in South Africa, reservations were...
The final lineup was the result of tough infighting among competing interests, and fancy-even tricky-maneuvering on Carter's part. The most egregious example was his appointment as Attorney General: Griffin Bell, a former federal appeals-court judge. Black leaders were outraged at the choice (see box opposite...
A comedian is the tightrope artist of laughter. If his audience does not laugh, he falls, plunging into the terrifying void of collective silence. Yet the comedian's precarious venture does not end there. He may possess a commodious catalogue of jokes and tricky bits of business, but finally...
The piece is written in D Major, which signifies, in Mozart, an emphasis on orchestral sonority. Shumsky promoted this interpretation with considerable success. The HRO spun through the four movements, permeated with tricky cutoffs and entrances, with flair and vitality. The bassoon work was especially fine. In two cadenzas written...
No Tricks. For the Mozart Requiem, Karajan opted convincingly for a large symphonic approach, sweeping the music along with crisp rhythms and an ingenious succession of tempos. Bruckner's Te Deum has a peculiarly spare, even austere ring; Karajan caught that quality by the simple expedient of exposing all...