Word: irregulars
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...influenced Ravel during his attendance of the World’s Exhibition in Paris in 1889.Later, six other undergraduates joined the Silk Road Ensemble to play music of Turkmen, Armenian, and Yiddish influence, using non-Western techniques and instruments to create music that was both captivating and unfamiliar. With irregular rhythms, a Japanese flute, and a hand drum, the ensemble seemed to conjure fantastic foreign landscapes.Christopher D. Chang ’12, a violist who performed in the concert, says that the ensemble’s style of playing was a refreshing change from the often sterile performance of Western...
...each other than Foster, the meticulous inheritor of the principles of High Modernism, and Koolhaas, who has spent a lifetime sorting through those principles to see which ones had to go. Foster's buildings tend toward the serene and Cartesian. Koolhaas is apt to arrive at the ruptured and irregular. Foster is given to sleek materials and finely honed finishes. Koolhaas isn't above slapping what looks like AstroTurf on an outdoor terrace at the Wyly. Both of them have scored the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor, but, to put it mildly, not for the same reasons...
According to a statement issued by Lazard, the cause of death has not yet been determined, although Wasserstein had been hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat a few days earlier...
...reality, after the signing of the Philippines' own National Milk Code, "the implementation was spotty, irregular, not done consistently," says Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla. Held up by legal complaints from milk companies who saw the code as an unlawful affront to their industry, the domestic law went through 12 drafts over 19 years. "We went through public hearings, consultations; we even tried to process the complaints of the milk companies - until when we couldn't agree on anything anymore, they brought the case to the Supreme Court," says Padilla. The milk companies' efforts finally lost the case when the Supreme...
...Cavanagh's office untangles April's events, one thing is certain: The number of asylum seekers seeking to enter Australia by boat is on the rise. Nine months into 2009, there have already been 1239 recorded "irregular maritime arrivals" in Australia; in 2008, there were only 161 during the whole year. On September 11 and September 12, two boats carrying 148 asylum-seekers were discovered off the northwest coast of Australia. On September 16, another boat carrying 58 people was intercepted 265 miles (420 km) north of Broome in Western Australia. Just the day before, the Australian government announced that...