Word: arrays
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...fees that flow to the investment banks from those deals will continue to beef up their bottom lines. But all elements of the financial-service sector--indeed, all intermediaries in the economy, from auctioneers to arbitrageurs--need to remind themselves daily that their hallowed brands and array of services will not fend off the challenges of the Internet...
...Accordingly, the album is a loose collection of tracks that seem to be the musical equivalent of an artist's sketchbook--it contains an array of self-contained and varying ideas--rather than a fully flushed-out concept album. Hutchence was obviously allowed significant creative license to experiment with different textures, because there are scarcely two tracks that sound similar, which is hardly a drawback. Heavily distorted guitars are on assault on the opening track "Let Me Show You," but are immediately contrasted with ethereal and richly textured multi-layered sonics on the ballad "Possibilities." Radio ready hits jostle...
...election. Naturally candidates boast about the battles they fought during their time on the council and their aptitude and acumen in dealing with the administration, but there is no real way to tell how accurate these claims are. Posters and debates can advertise ambitious programs calling for a wide array of new services and vague notions of campus life, but there is no way to communicate which candidates have the skills to bring their programs about...
...another piece, Shared Fate, we see an array of objects--a pair of gloves, a deck of cards--sliced into by that most humane of execution devices, the guillotine. This wasn't just any big blade; it was, as the caption informs us, the one used to behead Marie Antoinette, now too rusty to slice bread...
Thirty Pieces of Silver, a Biblical reference to Judas's bounty for his betrayal of Christ is another of Parker's hanging pieces. A cascade of fishing line tenuously holds, in a five-by-six array, thirty pools of steamrolled silverware, from forks to platters to trombones. A slight rumbling from the Green Line below and the room is awash with music. A spiritual experience indeed--it's a near miracle that all those pieces manage to hang without tangling...