Word: buff
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...word about the pianist. He's big. Buff. With dreads. He sits lower at the piano than Glenn Gould did. It's often hard to count the "f"s in his fortes. That's Awadagin. In other words, after Maurizio Pollini's recital last month, it was "time for something completely different...
...appears to be an unlikely David to Microsoft's Goliath. He came under heavy fire last April for granting unconditional approval to Bell Atlantic's $23 billion merger with NYNEX, a deal that created a giant with 39 million phone lines from Maine to Virginia. But Klein, a music buff whose eclectic tastes run from Ray Charles to Puccini, takes no predictable view on enforcement either. He simply picks his targets as he sees them. "I'm not an ideologue or a crusader," he says. "Our principle is that any consumer should have a choice in what he chooses...
...with all things bright and Aquarian, it helps to have an open mind. There may be no scientific basis for homeopathy, but when you look into the eyes of Sailor, a buff-colored nine-year-old Persian mix, you want to believe. Three years ago, Sailor suffered from asthma and diabetes. Heavy-duty drugs had sapped her strength, and conventional vets recommended euthanasia. When her owner, Carley Alderman, brought her to Wynn's office, Sailor could hardly move. Wynn confirmed the diagnosis, then changed Sailor's treatment to a series of homeopathic pellets. The cat rallied. "She runs...
Compared with predecessors Mao and Deng, he enjoyed an easy revolution, and he had a far more worldly upbringing. "I wouldn't describe him as a closet Western-culture buff," says Kenneth Lieberthal, a China scholar at the University of Michigan, "but he has a more appreciative attitude than many Chinese." He once told an American visitor that he regretted not earning a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but one of his sons did get his from Philadelphia's Drexel University and worked for Hewlett-Packard in California before returning to China...
...does not take long for Anderson's fluid camera to lure us into this world. Anderson comes from the movie-buff school of filmmaking, and his film pays homage in many ways to the filmmakers who came of age in the 1970s, most notably Robert Altman and Martin Scorcese. The tracking shot, which Scorcese brought to a new level, is used early and often to full effect in Boogie Nights. The opening shot swoops down the street and through the doors of a topless disco, wherein it follows nightclub manager TT Rodriguez (Luis Guzman) as he meets and greets...