Word: brush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People couldn't believe what they were seeing," recalls Yo-Yo Ma, 25, but to him it was natural. He had a concert in Frankfurt that night, then a flight to a recording date in London, and while waiting for help, Ma decided to brush up on his Haydn. The dedication is typical for Ma; so is the hectic schedule (125 concerts this year) and the cheerful indifference to adversity. The silky beauty of his playing awes not only critics but other musicians. Isaac Stern, the virtuoso of violin and musical politics, says: "Ma is one of the greatest...
...summer after she graduated as the "Most Athletic Girl" at a suburban Baltimore high school, she broke her neck in a 1967 diving accident. "Somebody has to bathe me and brush my hair and feed me," she says. "In a sense, success for me is just getting up in the morning, looking at that wheelchair and saying, 'Yeah, it's still here...
During years of tough rehabilitation, she taught herself to draw and paint, holding a pen or a brush between her teeth. Then came the speaking tours and writing, in which she uses her own faith to encourage the despairing and disabled. Last year she organized a national "ministry to those who suffer" called Joni and Friends. Based in Woodland Hills, Calif., it offers both spiritual and practical advice to as many as 2,000 letter writers each week...
...cartoons that have the most impact," Marlette says, "seem to be the ones that express something that's latent in the unconscious.... There's an immediacy that comes straight out of the unconscious." In stripping away our lies and hypocrisies with the gentle lash of a Number Two brush, Doug Marlette reveals the better nature inside us all. There's more than one way, Huey Long, for every man to be a king...
...Angeles in a green Marine Corps Huey helicopter for three days at his 688-acre ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, he was asked if he would be making his final Cabinet decisions. "Oh no," the President-elect replied, "I think I'll be doing work on the brush and the woodpile." And so he did: chopping wood with a heavy double-edged ax and riding horseback every day with his wife Nancy...