Word: handing
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...music, essentially flat slabs of wood, metal or Bakelite outfitted with a pickup and six or eight strings set about an inch above a painted-on fretboard. A guitar in name only, the steel guitar is played seated, on one's lap or on detachable legs, with the hands resting on top. The right hand picks the strings, while the left holds a stainless steel bar that you slide up and down the neck to change the pitch. But the lap steel was limited; since the instrument is fretted with a straight bar, it lacks the flexibility that fingers provide...
...easier to play, hence the pilgrimage to Norwalk. My seminar is conducted by Joe Wright, one of the more cutting-edge players on the scene, who looks like a cross between Austin Powers and Joey Ramone, and who takes the group through drills emphasizing the importance of the right hand. Isolating problems on the steel is a little like trying to decide which one in a school of piranhas is hurting you more, and Wright's method provides a solid grounding that's all the more welcome in that I can actually understand most of what's going...
...Gore camp, which got neither what they wanted nor what they expected from Judge Lewis, there's plenty riding on the appeals process. The argument will be the same - that while the law may call for the 5 p.m. deadline, it also says counties have the right to the hand recount. Bush lawyers will argue that Judge Lewis was right - the discretion rests with the secretary of state...
...Bush camp is trying to hold the line. With a judge poised to rule on whether to grant Al Gore and his hand-counters an extension of Florida's 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for certifying county vote tallies in the state's election, former secretary of state James Baker appeared before reporters in Tallahassee and urged once more for a endgame that would "take this process out of the courts." The adjusted disarmament offer: Let the manual recounts continue - but only until the 5 p.m. deadline, and then use Friday's final number (absentee ballots included) as the deciding number...
...well as their rivals, Baker is making the stop-the-madness argument again - "More and more we see uncertainty in financial markets, and uncertainty abroad." And also accusing the Gore camp of being "more focused on selectivity than fairness," both in choosing the counties to be recounted by hand and in what portion of Florida law it chooses to champion. Gore, Baker said again, wants to keep "counting and recounting until he gets the results he wants." And a statewide manual recount of all Florida's 67 counties, he said, would take "an inordinate amount of time...