Word: stringing
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Idei's stature in America's "New Establishment" mirrors Sony's performance these days. Men in Black is just one of a string of hits this year that has enabled Sony Pictures (Columbia, TriStar) to fly past $1 billion in U.S. box-office sales in record time. In music, Sony's record division continues to churn out profits, even though the industry is downbeat. Sony's PlayStation game player has blown away Nintendo. And Sony still sells $23.28 billion worth of audio-video equipment. Its second quarter was a monster, with sales rising 20.6% to $13.6 billion and income rising...
...third movement opens with a quick, exciting string passage, and overall conveys a morehopeful tone than its preceding movements. There is a regular, bouncy rhythm echoing throughout the different sections of the orchestra--about as bouncy as Prokofiev could ever write. There is a meditative scene in the midst of this action that the orchestra portrayed very gracefully. But it quickly turns back to marching notes of stridency and urgency--and the symphony ends with a bang, not a whimper...
...string quartet come about at the Horde shows...
...have strings on our record and we wanted to do something different. On Lollapalooza, every show was the same and the bands weren't really into it. We wanted to do something exceptional and bring in a string quartet. Ben worked overtime arranging the strings and arranging the charts. We thought it'd just be a way to stand out a little...
...popular German singing group of the '20s and '30s--composed of Jews and non-Jews--that was disbanded by the Nazis. Manilow on Hitler's Germany? Why not? "The pop-music business doesn't want to work hard; it just wants a catchy melody," says the sentimental troubadour, whose string of pop-chart-topping melodies--Mandy, Looks Like We Made It, I Write the Songs--ended years ago. "You get to a point where you look for other places where you can do it, and Broadway seems like the right place...