Word: pedaled
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Rosen played excerpts from Beethoven's third piano concerto and a Chopin waltz to show the difference between the romantic and classical use of the piano pedal. Whereas Beethoven used the pedal "only as a special effect to reinforce motifs and dynamics," romantic composers considered the removal of the pedal a special effect, he said...
...crests a hill, there it is, just 50 yards ahead, a terrorist roadblock: two small foreign cars, parked across the pavement. With only a second to react, the driver lunges at the emergency brake to lock the rear wheels, then jams down hard on the brake pedal too. He jerks the steering wheel to the right. The rear of the car twists savagely in a 180° "bootleg" turn...
...road or a hotshot, it upsets nearly everyone. Especially the macho types. It's a heavy landing for them to find out they really can't drive and are nowhere near the limits of the car." For reassurance, the student looks at the special brake pedal installed on the passenger side of Scott's Malibu for the instructor to use if a student panics and freezes...
...departure from Carter's commitment to nuclear power. The platform promises that "as alternative fuels become available in the future, we will retire nuclear plants in an orderly manner." On the third troublesome plank, the drafters brushed aside an attempt by Carter sup porters to soft-pedal the abortion issue. The platform now flatly opposes "any constitutional amendment" restricting the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion. That could be the most divisive plank of all, particularly if Republican platform drafters follow Ronald Reagan's lead in endorsing just such an amendment...
...nose may recall the Concorde jet, but the exIts funny droop nose may recall the Concorde jet, but the experimental car unveiled by British Leyland last week does something much better than fly supersonic: driven at a steady 30 m.p.h., it gets 100 miles to the gallon. Push the pedal to 60 m.p.h., and BL's Energy Conservation Vehicle 2, or ECV, still gets a respectable 60 m.p.g...