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...doggedly determined. There are certain turns of phrase which should be rendered with great finesse, and that, in terms of the Chopin style, that means with a very subtle application of rubato. Many pianists, knowing that Chopin calls for rubato tend to throw it on as if with a trowel, distorting the basic metrical life of the music and making the melodies sound maudlin and oversentimental. I find it's not a bad idea, while playing practically anything of Chopin, to have the Mazurka, the most intricate of Polish forms, in the back of one's mind. Incidentally, the third...
...housing. In order to create an artificial shortage of skills and keep wages up, unions tightly limit their membership lists. Existing jobs are often parceled out to friends, relatives and neighbors, or at least to persons of the same ethnic group. Blacks are concentrated in the low-paying "trowel trades" and building services, mostly as common laborers...
...more clarity, too, in the N.E.B.'s description of sexual acts and bodily functions. Saul no longer enters a cave "to cover his feet," but "to relieve himself." To ensure that their camps would be fit for God's presence, Israelites are instructed to carry a trowel with them; "When you squat outside" the camp, orders Deuteronomy 23: 13, "you shall scrape a hole . . . and cover your excrement." Husbands and wives no longer "know" each other, but "have intercourse." The man struck down by untimely death in Job no longer has "breasts full of milk," but "loins full...
...Thieus have two children: 14year-old Anh is in a convent school in Dalat; six-year-old Loc lives at home in the family's modest military quarters near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. There Thieu, who likes flowers, dabbles some evenings with a trowel, or walks through the compound with an air rifle, shooting birds that are cooked and served to dinner guests. His real love is weekend fishing with cracked crab bait in the Saigon River or in the South China...
Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum can remember his carefree writer days, when a striking cement workers' union "threw in the trowel," and when a Mafia squabble over prostitute money proved that "too many crooks spoil the brothel...