Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concede more than two or three minutes to anyone, not the most fascinating stranger, not even one's oldest and dearest friend. Yes you're made of glass, they look right through you... All of this while balancing a drink in one hand and in the other a Vienna sausage wrapped in greasy bacon, which means one shakes hands with only two fingers and with one's mouth more puffed out than the cheeks of Dizzy Gillespie playing his trumpet...
...enrolled in an arts school in Vienna. I didn't know a whole lot," Hughes Hallett remembers...
When she was not listening to the Vienna State Opera (for three cents a show), she found her chemistry skills useful in helping her to set up the proper glazes and found her scientific skills in high demand...
...gone to elaborate lengths to apply political and psychological pressure to the participants, pushing them to cut a deal. The plain fluorescent lights and the faint stains in the rug at the conference center made it clear that the Hope Hotel was no Versailles or Vienna but a place to do business, pure and simple. The leaders were given identical accommodations-- identical suites furnished with identical desks, identical lampshades and identically colored towels. This arrangement carried the message that the three men enjoyed equal status and that they bore equal responsibility to resolve their differences...
...initial solo of the first movement may irritate those who swear undying allegiance to the French school of the oboe, but one must forgive the Vienna Philharmonic for playing on Mahlerian "period instruments...