Founded in September 1965 by Charles " Chuck " Laufer and his brother, Ira, Tiger Beat has as its forte teen idol gossip, movies, music and fashion.

In Britain, Dench has developed a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her forte throughout her career.

Above its wholly traditional rusticated ground floor of the yellow-ochre sandstone Florentines call pietra forte it has a stuccoed facade in a new taste, with delicate designs round the windows in the manner associated with Brunelleschi.

Whilst the academic study of trust relationships and systems has long been the forte of intelligence services such as the NSA, the growth of the Internet in the 1990s and the contemporary declassification of related knowledge allowed for greater public discussion of the potential for anonymous banking services by groups such as the cryptoanarchists and cypherpunks.

Humphries ' forte has always been his one-man satirical stage revues, in which he appears as Edna Everage and a host of other character creations, including Les Patterson and Sandy Stone.

Shinsekai has several fugu ( blowfish ) restaurants, but the neighborhood's real culinary forte is kushi-katsu.

Jurgis ' forte has always been Unlimited Freestyle aerobatics which has allowed him to develop his quest for new flight possibilities from himself and his aircraft.

* As a film-maker, Ritwik Ghatak has his forte, he has his originality. If his style is to be categorized, well, it's a new dimension of the Neo-Realist school.

Cheer-leading, mind-reading, playing tennis, interviewing celebrities and escapology have also been attempted, none of which has been identified as Beccy's forte.

On record, according to Scott and Steane, he has a singular inability to sing less than mezzo forte and has no concept of legato.

He must also have been a large man, since his forte lay specifically in fat-clown roles.

It was a little less successful in its third section ( Alborada, in B-flat major ), where the brasses somewhat drown the melodic designs of the woodwinds ; but this is very easy to remedy, if the conductor will pay attention to it and moderate the indications of the shades of force in the brass instruments by replacing the fortissimo by a simple forte.

This is consistent throughout, starting with the opening Kyrie where the syllables Ky-ri are delivered either forte or with sforzando, but the final e is piano.

His forte was the trap play, a scheme where a defensive lineman was allowed to come across the line of scrimmage unblocked, opening up space for Motley to run.

In the YQTL ( imperfect ) conjugation, the nun is ( where possible ) assimilated into the first root consonant and appears as a dagesh forte.

In her magnificent prime, Rethberg was remarkable for the combination of a seemingly delicate, feminine sound with a capacity for great vocal intensity, to which she added impressive breath control and dynamic light and shade ( from piano to forte notes ).

Most marches end at the volume forte ( loud ), but an example that doesn't is Sousa's Manhattan Beach, which ends fading away.

Elsewhere, Bouch ’ s forte was cheapness, and an ability to construct branch lines at a capital cost that might allow them to pay their way, especially if operated frugally ( In 1854 Bouch advised the directors of the Peebles Railway that the company should work the line themselves, as they could do so much more economically than a large undertaking ).

Literary critics, especially the prominent August Ahlqvist, disapproved of the book, at least nominally because of its " rudeness " – Romanticism was in its forte at the time – but maybe also because it was written in the southwestern dialect of Finnish, while Ahlqvist himself preferred the northeastern dialects of his homelands.

On September 19, 1692, Giles Corey refused to plead at arraignment, and was subjected to peine forte et dure, a form of torture in which the subject is pressed beneath an increasingly heavy load of stones, in an attempt to make him enter a plea.

Spohr made particular mention of Beethoven's antics on the rostrum (" as a sforzando occurred, he tore his arms with a great vehemence asunder ... at the entrance of a forte he jumped in the air "), and the concert was repeated due to its immense success.

Although he does not compose much at present, he is still involved in the implementation of Music, Ambiences, Sound FX — and his admitted " forte "— Dialogue ( hence, his current moniker: DialogueGuru ).

He then sat down at the piano and played the Polish national anthem loudly and slowly, repeating the final part in a great thunderous forte.

The blade itself is subdivided into 3 regions: the foible, or weak, at the last third of the blade near the tip, the medium, and the forte, or strong, is the third of the blade near the guard.

The forte of all Hudsons was power at speed.

Techniques illustrated by Talhoffer include unusual handling of swords, such as half-swording ( gripping a hand-and-a-half or two-handed sword with one hand near the pommel and the other on the forte of the blade ), handling swords at the tip to use the guard as a bludgeon or hook, and the use of cello-shaped shields that featured spiked ends for hooking and impaling opponents.

Due to the circumstances in which screamers are played, dynamics tend to stay at a level forte.

The 2-8-0 ’ s forte was starting and moving ' impressive loads at unimpressive speeds ' and its versatility gave the type its longevity.

Although at the time he used this for visual observation, he began to explore stellar photography, his forte, a few years later.

Although the " Presto " begins at a quiet, brisk pace, the listener is immediately arrested by three beats of silence, followed by the full orchestra performing at a clear forte level in bar 9.

But the surveying service proved not to be Holland's forte and three years later on 14 September 1911 the young Lieutenant Holland joined HMS Excellent, the Royal Navy's gunnery school at Whale Island, Portsmouth to start the ' Long Course ' which would qualify him as a lieutenant ( G ).

Rangeela's voice brought tears to the eyes of the listeners .. His forte was tragic songs, and he was proficient at slow numbers.

The woodwinds develop the section and other instruments join in gradually progressing to a full-bodied forte ( at bar 58 ).

Svenson began to study Engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology ( now Carnegie Mellon University ), before realizing that Mathematics was not his forte.

Besides his main forte, he also competed in biathlon, orienteering, ski-orienteering, cross country running and rowing at a national level and continued in senior competition.

While adaptations from other works was Darling's forte, between 1922 and 1928 at Universal he directed twenty-seven silent films and wrote forty screenplays.

* Maciste, l ' uomo più forte del mondo / Maciste, the Strongest Man in the World ( Mole Men Vs The Son of Hercules, 1962 ) starring Mark Forest

* Maciste, l ' uomo più forte del mondo / Maciste, the Strongest Man in the World ( Mole Men vs the Son of Hercules, 1962 ) starring Mark Forest

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

Perhaps the outstanding standard bearer of Mr. Brown's tradition for accuracy was Mr. Oscar J. Beale, whose mechanical genius closely paralleled that of Mr. Brown, and whose particular forte was the development of the exceedingly accurate measuring machinery that enabled Brown & Sharpe to manufacture gages, and therefore its products, with an accuracy exceeding anything then available elsewhere in the world.

Pimen is an old man, weak in body -- his voice rarely rises to a full forte -- but firm and clear of mind.

Maybe that's your forte.

This is suggested by the sharp and frequent change in dynamics from forte to piano.

When forte is indicated, the pianist is meant to evoke a sense of wickedness, thus depicting the antagonist.

The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title " The A. B. C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte ".

The violinist and composer Louis Spohr wrote: " In forte passages the poor deaf man pounded on the keys until the strings jangled and in piano he played so softly that whole groups of notes were omitted.

* Flamenco melodies are characterized by a descending tendency, as opposed to, for example, a typical opera aria, they usually go from the higher pitches to the lower ones, and from forte to piano, as was usual in ancient Greek scales.

Working closely with his librettists and well aware that dramatic expression was his forte, he made certain that the initial work upon which the libretto was based was stripped of all " unnecessary " detail and " superfluous " participants, and only characters brimming with passion and scenes rich in drama remained.

It begins with a marking of half-notes ( woodblock, soon joined by the four trumpets ) and eighths ( clarinets and synthesizers ); the ( amplified ) woodblock is fortissimo and the other instruments play forte.

The musical terms " piano " and " forte " mean " quiet " and " loud ," and in this context refers to the variations in volume of sound the instrument produces in response to a pianist's touch on the keys: the greater a key press's velocity, the greater the force of the hammer hitting the string ( s ), and the louder the note produced.

Peine forte et dure ( Law French for " hard and forceful punishment ") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead (" stood mute ") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon his or her chest until a plea was entered, or as the weight of the stones on the chest became too great for the condemned to breathe, fatal suffocation would occur.

Peine forte et dure was abolished in the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1772, although the last known actual use of the practice was in 1741.

The only death by peine forte et dure in American history was Giles Corey, who was pressed to death on September 19, 1692, during the Salem witch trials, after he refused to enter a plea in the judicial proceeding.

their best film ), the efforts indulged in a deliberately formless, non-sequitur style of verbal humor that was not the Stooges ' forte, according to Okuda and Watz.

He first directed two short films, but his first feature film was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ( 1945 ), one his first attempts to film dramas focused on contemporary concerns, which became his forte.

The piano's full name is " gravicèmbalo con piano e forte " meaning " harpsichord with soft and loud " but can be shortened to " piano-forte ", which means " soft-loud " in Italian.

By modern standards the instrument is not loud, its forte being less strong than a clarinet ’ s.

When Leslie was forced to relay this opinion to Turner, Turner said " You should tell Mr. Lenox that indistinctness is my forte.

The introduction is typically played in marcato style, typically using forte dynamics to catch the attention of the listener.