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...searching for the sound and phrasing of a passage that he wants to hear at a string rehearsal later today. With his right hand, its long thin fingers oddly flat at the tips and turned up like little spatulas, he plays the simple passage at heartbeat tempo. After a brief descent, the notes reverse direction, then fall, then rise slightly, then fall again and then, sighing, rise and fall into silence...
...illness interrupted a string of personal pluses for a man who last year was appointed the second youngest R.N.C. chairman in the party's history. A first album of his blues-guitar music (Atwater's avocation) was released last week, and Atwater's wife Sally is expected to give birth to their third daughter this week...
...senior attacker who led the nation in scoring last year. In his last effort against Harvard, Reh came off the injured list to contribute two second-quarter goals in 15 seconds, beginning a string of 10 unanswered Adelphi tallies. He is not a pleasant memory for the Crimson...
...last year, to $250 million. Riteway Diaper Service of Brooklyn, N.Y., has had a 300% increase in demand over the past twelve months. Dy-Dee Service of Washington, D.C., kept more than 400 families on a waiting list late last year. General Health Care, which owns a string of 13 diaper services from New York's Long Island to Phoenix, is adding 1,200 new customers a week and reopening an office in Hackensack, N.J., after closing it for lack of business...
...string bean, either," another friend of mine said meaningfully. Then they both laughed at that, and one of us cried, "Harsh." Unduly so, because, in a way, that was the cruelest kind of dismissal...