Word: span
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wednesday morning he sent out the word that the recount shop was closed, and made it known that 9 p.m. was concession time - and the speech would not only be easy on the ears but, at 10 minutes, easy on the attention span too. Gore, of course, is writing it himself...
...feel so lucky, that I had so many opportunities. I don't feel that Hollywood is not giving women a chance. Women have a shorter span of time, but it's really an individual process. Women still have bridges to cross...
...WNBA is boring now, Margo, recount hearing on C-Span boring. Most WNBA games are one-sided affairs and even the NBA marketing machine realizes that a steady diet of the same three players isn't enough to sustain interest. The fans are realizing it, too: the league's attendance dipped to under 10,000 fans a game for the first time this year...
...Mozart or Bach here. First, you have to pick a piece that you know enough about to make a plausible reconstruction of the first performance. For a Bach cantata, you may not know enough about how it worked or when it first was performed. These five pieces also span a broad history of music. We go from the very late Renaissance to 20th-century music. For a person who only studies music in a limited manner, this book may provide guideposts. Furthermore, these are all large-scale pieces. A whole society has to get involved in these performances. People have...
...study classical music because I love it, but we all know that it occupies an increasingly smaller part of the everyday attention span. I hope that's a temporary thing. I hope it comes back, like natural fibers and vegetarian diets. I'm going to wait it out. I am interested in making people involved in actively engaging music, supporting the presence of music and musicians in their world. Ultimately, I want people to realize how lucky they are to be alive on a planet that has such wonderful music past, present and future...