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...true that Berlin, an emigre from Czarist Russia, had no formal training in composition. He could not read music. He employed arrangers to transcribe the pulsing melodies and often complex harmonies that poured out of his head and through his clumsy fingers. He could play in only one key, banging out his numbers on a special piano (he called it "the Buick") that, with the push of a pedal, could transpose keys. Even on his own machine, Berlin was a lousy salesman of his music; his ragged vocal and instrumental technique could undermine his best work. In 1934, Fred Astaire...
...there are conventions of beauty underlying those of art. For instance, the ideal Italian Renaissance woman had to be a white-skinned blond. Brunets would simply not do. Fashion, literature and the formal constructions of desire insisted on that. Since Italy, then as now, was short of pale natural blonds, bleaching was in order. A favorite bleach--especially in Venice, where prostitutes had to be blond to succeed--was human urine. Whose, history does...
...death, as a kind of monument. (J. Pierpont Morgan, who kept it in the study of his library in New York City, doted on it because it reminded him of his own dead wife, Amelia Sturges.) What is certain, however, is that Ghirlandaio's rich, hot colors and formal precision, his exquisite control of all the microforms within the larger silhouettes--the serpentine waves and knotted bun of hair, the lovely complexities of brocade and embroidery--make this one of the greatest panel paintings of the 15th century and one of greater interest than Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci...
...There's no centralized billiards body, there are no formal international rankings. But Reyes is indeed the guy everybody in the game wants to beat. Many end up handing him wads of $100 bills. "There are just things he does on a pool table that are a little bit above everybody else," says Helfert. He can play angles and the rails. He can position the cue ball seemingly at will, he excels at the safety game?burying opponents behind balls to prevent a clean shot?and he takes, and often makes, shots others don't see or won't risk...
...just immediately reacted to that," she says. "They were all saying, 'Oh, she's so not polite. Look at her, she's so rude.' But that wasn't my intention at all. For a while it was a huge issue. I was thinking, 'Oh, should I start talking very formal in public? Or should I just continue with this casual way of talking?' In the end, I began mixing formal and casual lines." Now Utada's informal approach has become her signature...