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...dining room table. As a supporter of Ronald Reagan, he was trying to round up a few more votes. As temporary chairman of the meeting, Kalal also used these final hours to figure out how to take charge of the caucus itself. Rather than depend on just a blackboard, for instance, he decided to set up his own slide projector to display the returns on a screen. He also jokingly mentioned his scheme to send one of George Bush's most articulate supporters out to phone in the straw-poll results. "While he's gone," chuckled Kalal, thinking...
...bishop's persuasive powers depended a good deal on deep-set, piercing blue eyes that seemed to transfix his viewers, and a burnished voice that would soar, pause theatrically or plunge to a hushed whisper. Wearing a cape and large pectoral cross, and with a blackboard as his only prop, he performed flawlessly without script or cue cards. He put something like 30 hours' preparation into each show, memorizing key points and the eloquent windup that would precede his famous "God love you" sign...
...tortured and killed by Pol Pot's henchmen. The prison has now become a museum, crammed with grim mementos of the fallen regime's barbarity. On display are handcuffs, chains, bamboo cages and iron bars that were applied, red hot, to the genitals of prisoners. On a blackboard are inscribed the jailers' instructions to their victims: " 1. You must answer in conformity with the questions I ask you. 2. During beatings or electrocution you must not cry loudly. 3. If you disobey any of my regulations, you will get either ten strokes of the whip or five...
...very big thing," Canadian-born Jewison said last week. To make this point, he recruited Lazlo Kovak--a cameraman whose strong sense of style attracted most of the critical acclaim for Woody Allen's Interiors. The voices of children in the background rise as Kovak zeroes in on a blackboard and an American flag--"and to the republic for which it stands one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Freeze--a police car and run-down jailhouse...
...last count-that make up the minuscule world of the atomic nucleus. When physicists first postulated the sticky little gluons more than five years ago, they were only theoretical concepts: no one knew whether they really existed outside their equations or were just some more scribblings on the blackboard...