Word: stringing
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...William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style, a collection of synthesizer arrangements of pieces by classical greats ranging from Vivaldi to Satie, is a case in point. When Orbit, Madonna's producer, sticks close to the composers' arrangements and instrumentation, as he does on Barber's "Adagio for Strings," the songs don't profit from the synthesizer's virtues and still suffer its vices. "Adagio" sounds like the work of a very tired string orchestra...
...Bridget?) shows that Bridget is less high-strung than Ally McBeal, the inevitable object of comparison. And some genuinely hilarious moments pepper the novel: going to Mark Darcy's house and finding a "lithe oriental boy, stark naked, smiling weirdly, and holding out two wooden balls on a string and a baby rabbit...
...memorizing the country code, city code and phone number for someone outside the U.S. as one string of digits and see how difficult it is. Breaking unwieldy pieces of information into smaller pieces makes them easier to remember. The process is called "chunking," and that's why we can remember Social Security and telephone numbers. Large unbroken sets of numbers, such as driver's licenses, can be artificially divided into chunks for easier recall. "Clustering" is another effective technique. Seven, according to experts, is the magic number for short-term, or working, memory. That's roughly how many things...
...career did do a 180 after she became the wife of the most famous man on the planet. After winning performances in Flirting and Dead Calm, Nicole tried to flex her acting muscles opposite her new husband (Far and Away, Days of Thunder) but found herself in an endless string of flops (My Life, Malice, Portrait of a Lady, etc.). And so she took action--my mother calls it "Plan B," I call it "Operation Take My Clothes Off and See If I'm a Better Actress When I'm Naked." Nicole Kidman has become the new Demi Moore--naked...
That likely will not play well in the Soundview section of the Bronx, where, White says, "the entire black community is vibrating like a plucked string." On Friday and throughout the weekend, anguished crowds gathered into the evening on the block where Diallo was gunned down, some standing silently with candles, others incoherent in their anger. "My son could end up as the next Amadou Diallo," one young father cried...