Word: emeralds
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...evening's performance and something isn't right. Sitting at a grand piano in St. George's concert hall in Bristol, England, on May 12, Derek Paravicini tears through a rehearsal of The Flight of the Bumblebee, his fingers skittering across the piano keys. The musicians in the Emerald Ensemble orchestra feed off his energy and manage to keep up the pace, but it all sounds a bit off. After several stops and starts, the conductor discovers the problem: the orchestra and the star have been practicing different versions of the same piece...
...artists, teacher and student, it can be said that Moore “out-Ruskins” Ruskin himself. The fineness of the lines attests to the amount of skill and control of the brush Moore possessed, and the way in which he seamlessly blends the rich hues of emerald green to aquamarine blue is breathtaking. Each fiber is palpable in its smooth, glossy sturdiness, but we can also feel the soft tufts of gray and white along the feather’s bottom, aware that if we were to give the gentlest blow, they would stir. The soft shading...
...Ireland's Revival E.U. structural funds aren't the only reason that the Emerald Tiger roars, and Ireland isn't the only place where money from Brussels has helped build a modern infrastructure. But there's something about the scale of the transformation of Ireland's economy since membership in 1973 that boggles the mind...
...Bowl subsides and people like me settle into a six-month hibernation before preseason ball starts up again, there is one facet of the big game that we’ll see for weeks, maybe months to come. From a FedEx spot about fittingly-named co-workers to an Emerald Nuts ad serving to resurrect the career of an obscure Canadian singer, it’s the game’s commercials that get everyone—from the most casual of observers to the self-described fanatics like yours truly—pumped for the ultimate lesson...
...consumer and voted on by consumers in an online contest, also ranked high as a trigger for the brain 's reward circuit. The ads that elicited little response in the ventral striatum, according to the UCLA study, included Robert Goulet 's turn as an office gremlin for Emerald Nuts and Sprint 's commercial for "connectile dysfunction...