Word: finches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snaps out of it, perhaps realizing that he's just made the kind of comparison he had boasted about avoiding. He savors these small imaginative flights. In trying to explain himself in the past year, he has invoked such figures as Joe Friday, Atticus Finch, the Lone Ranger, George Washington and Christ in the garden at Gethsemane on the night before the Crucifixion ("Let this cup passeth from me"). The roster suggests that Starr needs to place himself in the company of heroes and saviors. "I can't be the judge in my own case," he says, and maybe...
...agonized meetings, Deacon and a panel of experts whittled down a long list of pianists to the golden 74 included here. The selection will not please everyone. Partisans and critics already want to know why their favorites were passed over: "Where is Stephen Kovacevich's incomparable Schubert?" asked Hilary Finch of the London Times. But the reputations of the represented artists--Paderewski, Horowitz, Brendel--are indisputable. "Of course, this was a subjective and somewhat personal exercise," says Deacon. "I'm not arguing that some of those excluded aren't great. We are only saying the ones we selected are unquestionably...
Sawyer turned up little actual news beyond Starr's admission that his office should have kept Linda Tripp on a tighter leash. The real revelations were in Starr's sense of self. Having previously compared himself to Joe Friday, Atticus Finch, George Washington and the Lone Ranger, Starr upped the ante on 20/20, when he tacitly likened himself to Sir Thomas More ("He took the law very seriously") and, half-jokingly, to Jesus Christ (Starr said his reaction on first hearing of Lewinsky was "a little bit of 'Let this cup pass from me'"). The More reference was actually kind...
Some thought Boston lost its claim to television fame when the long-running series "Cheers," filmed at the downtown Bull and Finch Pub, aired its last episode...
...chance," I said. No lawyer who has compared himself to Atticus Finch is likely to turn the trial of the century over to a deputy. What profilers have found out about the personality type known as the Creampuff Bully is that even though he tends to surround himself with tough guys, he always has them withdraw to the wings when the spotlight goes...