Word: trumpets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What best prepares a man to be speaker of the House? Being the water boy for his high school football team? Enjoying the rowdy pleasures of his college frat house? Or learning how to play the trumpet while driving a car? The first Republican to make a grab at Gingrich's job last week has all those qualifications, which may come in handy in a job that requires carrying water for brawling factions, holding steady in a raucous ideological environment and doing more than one thing at a time...
Another innovative young college woman has her 3D screen-saver trumpet the date of her next glorious reunion with her boyfriend. The screen-saver simply flashes "Jason is coming to visit me" while gyrating giddily on the screen of her laptop. The best thing about the screen-saver-boyfriend-reminder is that any visitors, and of course every roommate, knows immediately that there is an impending visit from your special someone...
...many bands and artists today can get by on shaky or nonexistent musical skills and sensibilities. What else are studio musicians and synthesizers for? Cake, however, obviously has musical talent. The instrumental work is well-crafted, original and one of the best things about the band. The distinctive trumpet of Vince Di Fiore and Gabriel Nelson's masterful bass guitar are still here, although not necessarily better than ever. It just wouldn't be Cake without them. Cake's songs are becoming more structured, almost as if they have invested in songwriting lessons from the Beatles. As Cake appeals...
Whalen performed, with typical perfection, generally swanky-sounding lounge pieces. The highlight of these was "Danny Diamond," a song about a transvestite cabaret performer who was exposed and murdered, in which Whalen wraps haunting tones around the sliding guitar rhythms and creaky trumpet riffs...
...Amato may be a blackguard, but he's their blackguard, grabbing whatever he can for the state. Schumer argues that D'Amato has been bad for New York because he voted to cut funding for schools, hospitals, highways and the environment. When D'Amato holds a press conference to trumpet some pork-barrel item, says Schumer, "he's working an elaborate con. He chops off your hand, then sews a finger back on and expects a pat on the back...