Cecil Payne, a venerable jazz musician who was in Dizzy Gillespie's big band in the 1940's, hasn't stopped playing gigs; he's still a man of extremes, playing the baritone saxophone and the flute.
The variety of tactics enables athletes with sharply contrasting styles to excel, creating fascinating match-ups, especially when the strategy extremes play each other.
Last year's extremes played out as a taste of what the world can expect if those levels continue to rise.
While some BDSM appears, and can be, violent or dangerous, practitioners insist that even extreme play is invariably mutually pleasurable, indeed often loving (a virtually mandatory part of play is the "aftercare": a comedown of sorts, often featuring cuddling, hydration, sweets and a blanket).
"Miller Time," which fucks up the drums from "Dwyck" and the horns from "It Ain't Hard To Tell," is an extreme play on hip-hop marketing of self: "We got our credibility/Even though we're black/We're not too menacing".
Black-box theaters are often settings for extreme performance art, and it doesn't get much more extreme than playing all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas back to back.
Much more extreme than playing to a load of rowdy old punks..."...
"Throughout his life, he always made extreme choices, playing an all-or-nothing game.
It was always an extreme experience playing with him, and you were almost exhausted at the end".
Their extreme pianissimo playing in the Ravel and the Franck drew listeners in, and they were perfectly audible at the back of the room.
