Word: jesting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...down once more for an encore. The last movement of the E major Haydn Piano Trio proved to be a delightful, almost giddy, piece, with quirky and crisp grace notes passing among each member of the trio. The group members were obviously having great fun throughout this encore. In jest, Pressler deliberately drew out one note, heightening the anticipation with flair, charm and beautifully clean technique. As the enthusiastic audience once again applauded the brilliant and passionate performance, the trio departed from the stage, showing flashes of the camaraderie that makes them the consummate chamber ensemble musicians...
...deeply saddened by the article "Who Needs a Period?" about women's manipulating the timing of their monthly period, sometimes reducing it to just a few times a year [MEDICINE, Sept. 11]. The menstrual cycle is not a curse, as many women refer to it in jest, but a blessing that enables us, if we choose, to create life. What does it say about us if we wish to avoid one of the defining characteristics of our sex? How out of touch we have become if we begin to think of this natural experience as a burden. KAILIN M. FENN...
...evening, as swimmers from around the world were looking for a party. Quann declared she would be back in the training pool some day soon, doing her customary 15 or 20 km a day. "The 2004 Olympics are just around the corner," she said. It sounded only partly in jest...
...remark was both funny and not made entirely in jest. Vidal is anything but a gadfly in his preoccupation with U.S. public affairs. He brings to the topic a mixture of nostalgia and estrangement. He inherited strong political yearnings; he idolized his blind maternal grandfather, Senator Thomas P. Gore, a populist Democrat from Oklahoma (who makes a cameo appearance in The Golden Age). But the young Vidal's firsthand glimpses of power as he accompanied his grandfather around Washington were eventually succeeded by the realization that he lacked the temperament to achieve such power himself. That is why his sympathy...
...remark was both funny and not made entirely in jest. Vidal is anything but a gadfly in his preoccupation with U.S. public affairs. He brings to the topic a mixture of nostalgia and estrangement. He inherited strong political yearnings; he idolized his blind maternal grandfather, Senator Thomas P. Gore, a populist Democrat from Oklahoma (who makes a cameo appearance in "The Golden Age"). But the young Vidal's firsthand glimpses of power as he accompanied his grandfather around Washington were eventually succeeded by the realization that he lacked the temperament to achieve such power himself. That is why his sympathy...