Word: benching
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...says. His bearing becomes regal, his face is masked in concentration. His back erect, he kneads his fingers, bows his head for a moment's thought, and then eases into the 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...
...difficult to know where the courtroom's wood paneling leaves off and Ray Milland begins. His supporting cast may be actors or still lifes. That fine old comic stager Melville Cooper is immured on the bench and reduced to clearing his throat. Still, he is spared dialogue like "Now, perhaps, you'll listen to reason," "Dammit, the police aren't fools," or "Where the carrion is, there will vultures be gathered...
Sedlacek's career has been especially remarkable. The skinny six-footer from Valley Forge, Pa. doesn't look like much of an athlete, and he's always looked a little ungainly in a basketball uniform. But ever since one night in December, 1963 -- when he came off the bench in a game against Williams and thrilled the crowd for the first time with that beautiful jump shot --Sedlacek has seemed marked for greatness...
...other panelist complained that women didn't aspire to the supreme Court bench, and Mrs. Friedan straightened. Tapping the table with a forefinger bearing an enormous ring and straining to make us understand, she said, "Aspire. Exactly. Adults ask little boys what they want to be when they grow up. They ask little girls where they got that pretty dress...
...hander Jim Sisserson, second team all-Ivy last year, allowed only five touches while winning three bouts. Crimson captain Rick Kolombatovich's match with Charles Wertheimer was a crucial one in the final round. Leading 3-2, Kolombatovich lost the struggle for the next touch on what the Harvard bench considered a bad call by the director...