Word: armchairs
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...completely with his neck sometime around 2008. But it's still a face made for acting--all punctuation marks, from those pointy circumflex eyebrows to the profound parentheses on either side of his mouth. Lounging in his favorite suite at a New York City hotel, Nicholson sits in an armchair and drinks coffee and smokes Camel Lights. After a weekend of interviews, his lilting, comforting-yet-unnerving voice is shot to the point that it's just a husky growl, but Nicholson is a talker, and when he wants to talk, by God, he's going to talk...
...cavernous hall of a dazzling white palace that rises out of the Indian Ocean, the tiny President of one of the world's smallest countries wriggles forward in his armchair, plants tiptoes on the floor and begins the story of his revolutionary days. It's a little-known epic of how a humble teacher endured oppression, rose to lead his island people against a tyrant and finally triumphed, uniting the palm-lined Maldives. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom wears a saintly smile as he stresses that he "did not seek" greatness but rather "a lot of people wanted me to be President...
...years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively in his swivel chair, his bespectacled eyes crinkling into a smile. “I’m an armchair traveler...
Unless dramatic technological changes render airplanes an anachronism, Hunt will stick to his armchair and Schoenhof’s. But if teleporting does come into vogue, you’ll find him in one of two places. “I’d have to choose two: Sweden and Greece. Automatically, automatically.” He snaps twice...
...next evening, the boys focus on physical and mental recovery. Lannon slumps in an armchair in his Dewolfe suite, a museum of sports and beer memorabilia. “I finally relaxed around 11:30 last night,” he says. “You just run through everything in your head—every worst case scenario...