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...walk halting. He seemed to have difficulty moving the left side of his face and often slurred his words. At times he looked heavily drugged. After a picture-taking session with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Brezhnev tried to rise from the couch where he had been sitting, and his knees buckled; he quickly grabbed Gromyko's hand, drew himself up with Schmidt's help and walked away...
...walked down one of the hallways and into a small, well-lit room with several rows of comfortable, plush blue couches facing a stage. Nobody else was in the room. Sister Wood took me to the first couch, and we settled into it without speaking. Sister Wood stared at me for a moment, seemed to be sizing me up, and then started talking...
...raga, he looked around the room like a bewildered child, at a loss for words, waiting for someone to relieve him quickly and take him off the stage. At a reception held for him after the concert, he exhibited the same social awkwardness, huddling in a corner of the couch, silent except when spoken to. Unlike Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, who thrive on these liquor-dominated social events, Khan seemed embarrassed...
Indeed, Fine approaches his craft with an intensity rarely seen in these parts. "When I do something, I want to do it well," Fine said, reclining on a couch in his Claverly room yesterday afternoon. "I want to win so much that I can't shrug it off. If there are people out there with me not giving everything they have, I just can't accept that...
...have been random, although it is an ultimately undeveloped idea. Specific trends in the Vienna of that time have relevance to the themes of the play. In late 19th century Vienna, many bourgeois marriages had become business contracts of respectability, driving wives to hysteria on Freud's couch and husbands to other reclining positions. One Viennese citizen says prostitution was "the dark underground vault over which rose the gorgeous structure of middle class society with its faultless radiant facade." Similarly in the story of Measure for Measure lechery runs rampant in Vienna. The Duke of the city pretends to leave...