Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made for some hair-raising pianissimo, his playing lacked the requisite Schnabelian drive. He strove for a nearly pedal-free sound at times when more blurring would have been a relief, and he attached the first movement cadenza with all the grace of an angry farmer. The effect was wild, precipitous, unique--but out of place. The second movement demonstrated Schiff's peerless trill technique, while the third hurdled toward a deft close as leprechaun like as the diminutive pianist himself...
...made for some hair-raising pianissimi, his playing lacked the requisite Schnabelian drive. He strove for a nearly pedal-free sound at times when more blurring would have been a relief, and he attacked the first movement cadenza with all the grace of an angry farmer. The effect was wild, precipitous, unique--but out of place. The second movement demonstrated Schiff's peerless trill technique, while the third hurdled toward a deft close as leprechaun-like as the diminutive pianist himself...
...show, the audience was reluctant to let the band go. Their exit was accompanied by wild applause and screaming until they were wooed back onto stage. Both encore pieces were from Bring It On, concluding with the whimsical "Whippin' Piccadilly," a tribute to drug day ambling around their native...
Imagine that you are able to go back to the American West and see what really happened at the OK Corral during the assassinations of Sitting Bull and Wild Bill Hickok and at the Battle of Little Big Horn. On the way, suppose you happen to stumble across Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley and even Queen Victoria, with whom you share a few drinks and swap stories and. This may sound like the plot for Bill and Ted's Excellent Wild West Adventure, but it is actually the basic premise of Thomas Berger's novel The Return of Little...
...beginning of the book, Jack makes friends with legendary sheriff Bat Masterson and meets his old friend Wild Bill Hickok once again, Wild Bill dies while under Jack's guard, and grieving Jack decided it is time to keep moving; Jack travels with Bat to Tombstone, the first of his many journeys. There, he sees Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, both mean and rather flawed heroes; Jack follows them to the Ok Corral anticipating trouble, and describes the misunderstandings leading to needless violence that happen in the legendary showdown...