On cue, the sounds of the fife-and-drum corps filled the hall with Colonial-era music.
His selections generally avoided melody, blending stretches of condensed, grainy rhythm with stomping drum-and-bass tunes from the mid-nineties.
Like the artist-turned-Internet-entrepreneur who slunk in when he couldn't drum up additional funding for his money-eating Web outfit.
Next head to the main ring, where a typical timetable may consist of falconry displays, Cumberland wrestling, pipe-and-drum performances and pony-and-trap contests.
And now, the 2007 Word of the Year as been announced, and it is - drum roll please - subprime.
This is one reason I keep beating the free-markets-plus-public-option drum.
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Lewis got thunder with his bass-drum roll, right-foot-powered.
Developed by men who had left their families behind to start a life in Argentina's bustling capital city, the dance expressed machismo, passion, longing and a fighting edge - and was set to an emerging sound rooted in Spanish and Italian melodies, criollo (Argentine-born) verse and Afro-Uruguayan candombe (a drum-based rhythm).
In April, Mr. Ivanishvili established Georgian Dream, a coalition of opposition groups running in the Oct. 1 parliamentary election, and began to drum up ethno-nationalistic, fundamentalist-Orthodox rhetoric.
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De Vaucanson built two astonishing humanoid musicians--one played the flute and the other played pipes and drum--yet the automaton that brought him the most fame was a life-size mechanical duck.
" I have a hunch that he means the tough-minded Tati who made "Playtime" -- a difficult, seldom-seen experimental comedy that also starts with drum riffs on the soundtrack -- more than the gently whimsical Tati who puffed a pipe and toted a butterfly net in "Mr. Hulot's Holiday.
Will Hueston play dirty and drum up 20-year-old, vague accounts of wrongdoing hiding in Lay's past?
As such, the film is an efficient demonstration of the Greengrass method: the punch-drunk camerawork, the drum-beating soundtrack, and a stout refusal to pause for thought or downtime.
The multinational negotiations held over the weekend in Turkey with the ostensible purpose of halting Iran's nuclear weapons program will be followed by - drum roll - yet another round of talks in late May.
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Online purveyors, meanwhile, are embracing old-fashioned, bricks-and-mortar locations to drum up new business and gather new data on their customers.
If Royal Caribbean can't give people a reason to travel on its cruise ships rather than on Carnival 's (nyse: CCL - news - people ), maybe its best to stir them into action with a drum-banging television spot and scream at them to "Get Out There!"
He was there to walk the halls and drum up non-audit work at audit clients and non-audit clients alike.
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The brick building was decked in patriotic bunting, and a fife-and-drum corps led Romney inside.
Once a year the museum stages a Militia Day, with musket firings, fife-and-drum marches and a mock battle.
But candidates may still have to bang-the-drum for these elections, even before they can draw up political lines between their rivals.
It is easier to dress soldiers in bright uniforms and have them march to the sound of a fife-and-drum corps than it is to have them ride six hundred miles through the desert on the back of a camel.
The striking feature is the church's interior: velvet-cushioned pews crushed on top of each other, sodden floorboards and a broken drum set -- picture perfect upheaval.
It has the ideal riding position for drifting leisurely around towns, with the handlebars set high, a rack traditionally used for giving your chums a lift, mudguards as well as skirt guards, built-in locks and, very often, a built-in drum dynamo.
Here is a man who can take his instrument and produce from it the sweetest-sounding violin or the power-pumped beat of a drum kit.
Mid-afternoon, and main stage security have built themselves into a reinforced semi-circle as if preparing for war as Australian drum 'n' bass metalers Pendulum arrive - it's officially their 150th show.
The Luvaglio folks still seem a bit press shy -- either due to the info "leaked" last month, or a willful attempt to drum up interest -- but now they're back for more, and this time they've got a much better pic of this outlandishly priced laptop of theirs.
For now, in the shelter's basement-turned-music room, drum rhythms still accompany the piano.
After the shoot Segal extracts the old-fashioned 70mm film from the 6-foot-long chopper and runs it through a giant drum scanner to produce massive photo files, 500 megabytes per image.
The remaining 8 x 4 pads above now function as a step-sequencer -- with a sound selected, tapping these adds drum hits in the respective position in the drum loop.
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It allows them to offer stock options to local employees, a boon in a drum-tight labor market.
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