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...advantages and potential tediousness of the mercurial technician. Biss's combination of strategies included collegno, microtonesia, and heroic written out glissandi. The work 's primary fault was monotony of radical techniques. The cumulative effect--if that is a proper term since it is not clear since it is not cleat whether the work is sequential, progressive, or in any way organic--was not irritation but incipient somnolence. While some moments were undeniably refreshing, the work lacked stylistic mobility simply because the style was the subject...
...attracting further tests. In the early Paris days, his infant son, Bumby (John Hemingway, first child by first wife, Hadley Richardson), cut the pupil of Daddy's right eye with his fingernail. Baker recounts how Hemingway broke a toe on a gate, tore his stomach on a boat cleat, ripped open his hand on a punching bag, and shot himself in both legs while trying to land a shark. He was particularly prone to head injury: four major concussions in one two-year stretch...
...under the gentling fall sun of California's Central Valley. Out of the car stepped a trim figure in grey slacks and blue windbreaker. Under fluffy, center-parted white hair, his big, broad-browed head was thrust forward, turtle fashion. He looked old as he walked toward the cleat-chewed turf, but he shed his years like a mantle and straightened up smartly as the call rang out: "All right, kickers and punters," and the 39 players ended their scrimmage. Nine young men fell out and trotted over to the venerable newcomer. "Hi, coach," they chorused. Then one asked...
...efficiency on the field is even more striking. "He gets everything into that little bag of his," marvels one manager, "cleat cleaners, chin straps, special pads, pliers, rosin." Always, there are duplicate jerseys ready in case of mishap, and his speed in getting onto the field virtually equals that of the players...
Some of Dillon's facilities give it the air of a super-hotel. It has its own laundry, a darning machine for ripped uniforms, a cleat machine for speedier changes of cleats, and a shoemaker's set-up, complete with shoemaker...