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...Member E.L. Doctorow protested in the New York Times: "It is more than a shame--it verges on the scandalous--that those in stewardship of American PEN and the conference should have so violated the meaning of their organization as to identify it with and put itself at the feet of the most ideologically right-wing Administration this country has seen...
...York City courtroom, the case has already generated paper on a scale more typical of an antitrust battle. Not even writers of Dynasty could have dished such a saucy stew. In the courtroom, the children pointedly ignore Barbara Johnson, 49, who each day sits just a few feet from them, looking serene and expensively groomed--a far cry from the Polish art-history graduate who arrived in the U.S. in 1968 with just $100 and a few words of English. She went to work as a maid for Johnson and his second wife, and three years later married...
...right away it would work." Flex and absolute structural integrity without gimmicks: the chair is its material and structure. In addition, the designers engineered a novel tilt mechanism. Because the pivot is forward, at a point behind the knees, leaning backward in an Equa does not lift one's feet off the floor inexorably...
...fascination that grew in intensity as, over the next few months, she heard him in both New York and Italy. At Milan's La Scala, Horowitz performed his signature concerto, the Rachmaninoff Third. "Then he came to visit my father, and, as they say, I was swept off my feet." They were married in December 1933 in Milan. She knew no Russian, he no Italian, so they spoke French, the language they use at home to this...
Fortunately, the armed guards were music lovers. At once, they recognized the sensational 21-year-old pianist from Kiev who had had audiences from Moscow to Leningrad on their feet, cheering his pyrotechnical feats of pianistic derring-do. They gave only a perfunctory glance to his papers; instead, they crowded around him, rifles held casually, and pounded him on the back. "Now you go play for the rich over there and fill your pockets with money," one of them said. "But come back and play for us when your pockets are full. Do not forget the motherland...