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...keyboard. In driving home a run of climactic chords, he rises higher and higher off the piano bench as though he were intent on physically overwhelming the music. In more lyrical moods, his arms and hands move with a kind of gracefully looping symmetry, and always his eyes stare into space. "I like to look up over the piano so I can listen and follow the lines of the piece," he explains. "Looking at your fingers for accuracy is too confusing. I'd rather miss a few notes than play by phrases instead of as a whole...
...very careful with stairs," the duchess explained gently. "Oh hell," said the Duke of Windsor, 71, spryly negotiating the two flights down to the projection hall of Paris' Marbeuf cinema. Then the duke settled down with the duchess to stare raptly at a grainy, long-ago history called A King's Story, a documentary telling how Britain's Edward VIII gave up the throne in 1936 to marry "the woman...
Epic Feuds. For the customer who failed to appreciate his fare, Soule reserved an icy stare. To the diner who bickered over the check he delivered his ultimate gesture of contempt: puffing himself up to his full height (5 ft. 5 in.), he would rip up the check and say, "Good night. You have been guests of Le Pavilion...
...imaginable subject; many of his 156 dissents later became U.S. Supreme Court doctrine. Traynor is aptly called "a law professor's judge"-he writes not only acute, balanced opinions but reams of scholarly law-review articles as well. Most important, he is undaunted by the cautious rule of stare decisis (adhere to precedents). Always he asks: what is the fair, practical policy for today...
...with welcome publicity but negligible sales, has engineered the "bib" suit, which comes loosely up over the middle of the bosom, but leaves the outer reaches marginally exposed, offering a new perspective to the girl watcher who prefers to sneak a sidelong glance rather than risk a head-on stare...