I will long remember her teaching an opera workshop at the Harlem School, emboldening her young charges to take on scenes from Handel, Mozart and Menotti, always nurturing yet alert to any fudged rhythms, blurred words or shaky intonation.
"Weird Al" Yankovic, the king of the parody song, released his 14th studio album last week, Mandatory Fun, featuring spoof's of recent hits including Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines (Word Crimes), Pharrell's Happy (Tacky) and Lorde's Royals (Foil).
As directed by David Leveaux, they talk in a blurred rush of words, as if velocity of speech might disguise their feelings of purposelessness.
The lapses in memory, the mood swings, the piercing headaches on the left side of his head, the difficulty spelling simple words, the blurred eyesight.
The multi-tasking of going in and out of documents overloads my visual short-term memory and causes visual stress – words become blurred, I get tired and need frequent breaks.
In other words, the blurred image of the emitter is replaced with the best guess as to where the fluorophore is located.
But the Iranian news agency Tabak carries a blurred version with only the words "All is forgiven" visible above it.
However, her confrontation with Sergei Leiferkus's Scarpia, in the second half of act two, does not spark - perhaps because his Italian is so blurred she cannot understand a word he's saying.
In some cases the inspiration is direct and obvious, as with Dec 30th of 2005, where the partially blurred acrylic letters spelling the word "Hollywood" recede across the paper, and sometime less obvious but it's usually there somewhere.
He said a whole string of blurred sounds that were not words, and his face was red under the spiky white whiskers".
