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Watch out, United States. He is about to swoop down on your towns with balloons (5,000 were released in Columbia with a whoosh and a cheer) and bands (he borrowed the one from Rock Bridge High last week) and old stories (he told one about the verdant farm credited as the Lord's work until the farmer, irked at the preacher, pointed out it had been a mess when God tended it alone...
...transform them according to a predetermined program and project them out again through loudspeakers hung over and around the audience. The drama lies in the confrontation between the acoustic and the amplified instruments. Ghostly trills float above rumbling repeated figures, brasses punch out long discordant lines, and the shimmering whoosh of woodwinds fills the air. Repons is a journey into the soul of the 20th century, a harsh but exhilarating blend of music and machine. Its only flaw is that it does not go far enough. In 1981, when Boulez premiered the first 18 minutes of the work, the technology...
Palm trees were drooping in the heat of the midday sun and alligators snoozing after a breakfast of fish, when the alien bird swooped down from the sky. Roseate spoonbills and wild pigs scattered as it alighted with a gentle whoosh! on the 15,000-ft. ribbon of concrete beside the Florida marsh. On two previous missions, Captain Robert Crippen had been scheduled to land the space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center, the launch site, and each time bad weather had diverted the ship to Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. But this time, a looming...
From Harvard, Mockler went to Business School, where he later served as a research associate and doctoral fellow from 1955 to 1957. And in 1957, he joined Boston-based Gillette as a comptroller staff assistant for insurance matters--beginning a long climb which culminated in a heady nine-year whoosh to the top from the office of treasurer. He took five big steps up the corporate ladder from 1967 to 1971, became president and chief operating officer in 1974, and finally chairman...
...last sound she ever heard was a slight whoosh of air as a lead pipe descended on the back of her skull...