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...first about Slava," says Seiji Ozawa, "is lots of drinking. He taught me how to drink fantastic amounts. After one night with him, the next day is gone." His constant companion is a pocket-size, wire-haired dachshund named Puks. Rostropovich has taught Puks to leap on the piano bench and bang away at the keyboard with his front paws. Friends observe that what is remarkable is not that Puks can play so well, but that he can play...
...gray crew cut. So was Wade McCree, in the Solicitor General's traditional morning coat. At precisely 10 that Wednesday morning, the court clerk intoned "Oyez, oyez," and the nine black-robed Justices suddenly appeared from behind red velvet curtains and settled into their seats at the elevated bench. The stage was set for what could turn out to be the most important civil rights case in a generation, Regents of the University of California v. Allan Bakke...
...that could result in Allan Bakke's admission, at 38, to the freshman medical class at Davis next fall-would hold that racial quotas are not permissible, but that universities may use race as one factor in future admissions policy. That scenario was suggested from the bench by Justice Powell...
Just before the Dartmouth game, something did. Coach Joe Restic moved Jim Curry back to the kick-off slot while a disappointed Bosnic looked on from the bench. Did this mean that Bosnic's placekicking days were also over? Had the sun set on his varsity career before it had really gotten off the ground...
...swallows them between hilariously elongated pauses and then utters small, satisfied, digestive burps. At the grand piano he can make his fingers seem all toes, or wings. The timing is impeccable, the professionalism unflawed. One never knows whether he regards his props - the microphone, the piano, the piano bench - as allies or enemies...