Word: ax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works, experimenting with electronic instruments, exploring the links between the European tradition and other world music, and involving himself in music education on every level from Sesame Street to Tanglewood. "The whole idea of what music is and what culture and education are has changed so much," says Emanuel Ax, the pianist who is a longtime friend and performance partner of Ma's. "Yo-Yo is in a way the right man at the right time. I think we need people like him if music is to remain a truly vital force...
...spontaneity. "Yo-Yo has an ease of playing that is given to very few. It is a kind of mastery that gives one the greatest possible freedom," says violinist Isaac Stern, a onetime mentor of Ma's. "He is probably the most perfect instrumentalist I have ever seen," says Ax. "I spend hours and hours practicing every day. Yo-Yo can afford to sleep late and have lunch, and he still plays much more perfectly than...
...pickax and hacked to death Jerry Lynn Dean, 27, her ex-lover, and Deborah Thornton, 32, his companion of the moment, while they slept. Tucker, who left the pickax embedded in Thornton's chest, boasted at her trial that she had experienced an orgasm with each swing of the ax...
...excelled at passionate rhetoric, just like that provided by the earl in his unforgettable eulogy at the funeral of his sister Diana. The Tudors too were embroiled in endless marital controversies, though Spencer cannot end his with the finality available to Henry VIII--the thud of the headsman's ax. Still, one may wonder if Spencer was trying to display a similarly majestic, if less fatal, gesture--whether his righteous bombast against the media, delivered ostensibly to deify his sister, was not a self-interested attempt to raise himself above the prying eyes of the press...
...Highland Avenue resident reported that she was told that an ex-boyfriend of hers stated that he was fantasizing about killing her and another ex-girlfriend with an ax...