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...No bravura flourishes; instead there were mood-setting introductions and plunks, scrapes and riffs to help solos on the way....
...The set began with bowed cello hinting at a non-European scale and veered into a close dialogue of plunks, rattles and taps....
...Guitarist Gold conjured guttural tones, dulcet plunks and shimmers with hardly a pedal in sight, each with the strength of the blues....
...Seconds later it plunks to earth as a bony stick. Sword and sorcery....
...If I take your piece on this board, I hand it to my partner, and my partner can plunk the piece down in lieu of making a move....
...Alternatively, it’s hard to avoid the sexual connotations of a stiff shaft jabbing at a passive but unpliant body with an insistent plunk-da-plunk, plunk-da-plunk....
...In the evening, seated in a warm, wood-panelled recess, the satisfying “pli-plunk” of a lamp’s pull chain signals the start of a working night....
...For one thing, sponsors can’t simply plunk down hundreds of millions for marketing rights to gain the brand exposure of the Olympics as a global event, but avoid criticism that comes with related geopolitical...
...Elsewhere, strings plink and plunk at various speeds, drones are magnified and then decay and solid beats hold sway....
...A clearly stated “All of You” arrives after an upbeat chase between trio and strings and the chirpy theme of The Beatles’ “Blackbird” is set up by a bustle of string-delivered smears and plunks....
...The exhibition has a scene-setting group of instruments, a plinkety-plunk soundtrack and clashing images of racial caricature and theatrical formality....
...Maneri, here playing amplified viola, complements this approach with sweeping lines and plangent melodies, richly voiced chords and subtle plunks....
...Columbia University has never forgotten the traumas of 1968, when it touched off hostilities with a plan to plunk a gym in a local park and admit its largely black and Hispanic neighbours through a back...
...And then abstract slaps and plunks introduced a helter-skelter reading of Bud Powell’s demonic masterpiece “Tempus Fugit”....
...The guitar’s propulsive plunk-plunk evokes their deliverance by train from the treacherous south, while Odetta’s rich, deep voice plumbs the melancholy in leaving....
...Their third CD fleshes out the duo’s necessarily sparse textures with the swoops, swirls and plunks of the Elysian String Quartet on an all-original set ranging from jagged, Stravinsky-like riffs to gently...
...The pianist plunks sounds from inside the instrument, the wind players utter superscriptions before their ritual promenade around the piano. These musicians made it all seem very fresh....
...But the way the full ensemble stretched, decorated and fleshed out the chosen notes with swirling drones, cat-and-mouse plunks and more besides showed that random musical ingredients can produce order, given...
...Smith’s scores are futuristic and full of tricks, and the accomplished and sensitive Ligeti Quartet took the plunks, rollercoaster slurs and atonal smears in their stride....
...On the other hand, this is what happens in some markets such as Russia, where locals appropriate names of existing brands and plunk them onto other products, like Vacheron Constantin jeans....
...telecommunications infrastructure, party monopoly and credit, especially trade credit, and we find an African company, if it had a similar environment to others – if you take it out of where it is, and plunk...
...The through-composed string quartet whizzed through venomous attacks and dulcet plunks; the swing-inflected lines sounded like a score from Ornette Coleman....
...Neal Medlyn’s sound score shifted between tinkly atmospherics, psychedelic thrashings, keyboard plunks and intervals of silence....
...He also has him sit at the backstage keyboard and plunk out a snatch of Lloyd Webber’s “Memory”. Opera arias, in other words, were the pop hits of their heyday....
...That seesawing helps to explain why Morgan Stanley wanted to plunk a weight down in its business with the purchase of Smith Barney, to try to balance volatile trading operations with a heftier global wealth...
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