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What this means is that Cuba, at least to some extent, is on our wavelength, as the Hermit Kingdom never could be. Castro has eaten hot dogs at Yankee Stadium, been carried by cheering students around the Princeton campus and appeared on the Tonight Show. Though none of that ensures affection and all those memories are distant, someone who spent his honeymoon in New York City knows at least a little of America. Kim Jong Il, by comparison, is famous as the one leader who may never have met an American. And, being unable to put a face...
swirling around the center of the M87 galaxy are various fast-moving gases whose speeds can be measured by comparing the shifts in the wavelength of light emitted from the approaching and receding sides of the rotating disk...
...People all around me were usually falling out of their seats with laughter the other evening, so I guess my sense of humor simply doesn't tune into Jackie Mason's comic wavelength...
...superior to the same composer's two-handed Concerto in G Major. Fleisher digs into the dark, angst- ridden work, plumbing its depths with the unimpaired musical intelligence that has always marked his playing. (Would that his accompanists, Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony, were on the same wavelength.) He sprints through Prokofiev's steely Concerto No. 4 with aplomb and turns in a glittering performance of Britten's infrequently heard but urbane and witty Diversions for Piano and Orchestra...
...really expect to be able to resolve a lot of these difficult issues, we've got to have people in the legislative branch as well as the executive branch who are on the same wavelength and who are approaching these issues in the same manner," he said...