He returned with some bottled water, pieces of coconut, soggy bags of snacks and an army camouflage raincoat.
When a selection from Messiaen's "Catalogue d'Oiseaux" did turn up, after the Liszt and Ravel water pieces, it was linked with Liszt's "Vallée d'Obermann".
I had a pretty big backyard, and I was always trying to build theme park rides — a wagon on a rope, holes I'd dug up and filled with water, pieces of wood on pulleys.
She pops it into the VCR, and there she is in the water, pieces of ice as big as doors bobbing around her. Then there is a helicopter and a rope and she grabs it and she comes out of the water, barefoot, her stockings shredded, her apron flying in the wind.
In Liszt's 1877 "Les Jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este," the granddaddy of all pianistic water pieces, Grimaud transformed the tactile sensations of water into something more mystical.
I catch my reflection in the water, pieces of me plagiarized from the past Dad's nose, Mom's chin, her dad's hair, his sister's brain and look up to admire the scenery, while I can.
The show was a fish-out-of-water piece, which, like its contemporary The Beverly Hillbillies, featured rural characters out of their normal settings.
This center is all that most visitors see today," Sean Wilsey writes in "Open Water," his piece in last week's Journeys Issue.
"A drop of water, a piece of land, or a kilojoule of renewable energy cannot be seen through the single lens of one sectoral policy or management system.
"Torture, after all, is inconspicuous; all it needs is water, a piece of wood and a loud voice.
