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...single whole coming together from the hard-luck streets of Liverpool. All four Beatles were hard cases of various kinds, but Ringo takes the prize. Poor, sickly and essentially fatherless, he took up drumming as therapy while he was hospitalized for tuberculosis, pounding on his bedside cabinet using two cotton bobbins for drumsticks...
...with a Muslim majority, the couple were known for their public displays of affection, often hugging or bestowing pecks on each other's cheeks. During the funeral, Abdullah, 65, did his best to appear stoic. Wearing a traditional black songkok hat, a high-collared blue shirt and a checked cotton sarong, he comforted friends at the funeral who broke down as they bade his wife a last goodbye...
...famed for serving fantastical avant-garde cuisine. But in his first book he focuses on the small plates of his native Spain. The croquetas, crab-filled cherry tomatoes, artichokes sauteed with ham and gazpacho explained here are more accessible to the everyday cook than, say, his foie gras cotton candy, but they're almost as fantastic...
...invalid assumptions, sometimes they needlessly offend people, and sometimes they misuse big words. Alex Slack has managed to commit all three sins in just one article (“The Easy Way to Fix Fly-By,” comment, Oct. 6). First, if he truly believes that all cotton garments are equally non-abrasive, I suggest that he try sleeping on denim sheets for a night. Second, although I myself am a frequent flyer-by, I haven’t seen any evidence of the innate lasagna-spooning inability he reports among short females. Finally, unless...
...uniformed staffer at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) that I wasn’t allowed to wear jeans while using the equipment because “it wears down the fabric on the seats.” I was left wondering what the differences are between a 100 percent cotton t-shirt and a 100 percent cotton pair of denim jeans, since the former must touch the fabric of those machines hundreds of times a day. If places like the MAC are just going to make arbitrary rules, they should at least think up more creative excuses...