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...while, his East Hampton doormat read GO AWAY, and his roar and mane were leonine. But underneath that mask of grumpiness was one of the softest and kindest men I've ever met. He was constantly interweaving the lives of the people he knew, making sure they were cared for. Joe could be gleeful as a schoolboy about the success of Catch-22, and he often said how grateful he was for the G.I. Bill--otherwise he wouldn't have been able to afford college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: JOSEPH HELLER | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...spent a lot of my childhood in that studio, with my head in a vise as my poppy beat me with a cattle prod. A lot of the stuff that we produce today in these multi-million dollar studios, with all the fancy equipment, with the vises made of softest velvet, just don't compare to the songs I made in that little toolshed studio. Something about that studio was never really recaptured...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: Introducing: Jennr8r | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

Their strength lies in generating sounds that are New Age and hip while at the same time slightly Stan Getz-y, especially in the playing of the tenor saxophone. This is apparent in the most beautiful piece on their album, "Sunset Bay." The softest and most tranquil by far, "Sunset Bay" takes you to the Bay Area where the artists grew up. Ultra simple drum programming with understated saxophone notes will make you think you are walking down the Embarcadero with your special someone. The same can be said about "Eventide;" yet this time, the brothers add flute and something...

Author: By Maria SOFIA Velez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jazzing It Up With The Braxton Brothers | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...interest in these sanctuaries, amid a pop culture in which nuns and monks are usually depicted as demanding and dry or who, in their softest incarnations, wonder, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?"? Theories vary, but one reason is poet and novelist Kathleen Norris. She first hit the best-seller list in 1993 with Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, a meditation on the farm crisis, religion and the wind-whipped Plains state of North Dakota. That was followed in 1996 by The Cloister Walk, a log of the nine months that Norris, a married Protestant, spent living among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Thee To a Monastery | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...world-worn gentleness in their touch. She takes care of him: lays out his breakfast, orders the small details of his life, helps him find whatever he needs. Grove's big eyes--which in meetings can penetrate the skull of an unprepared executive at 50 ft.--are at their softest when he rests them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: A SURVIVOR'S TALE | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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