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...functional at first. The platforms and curtains allowed for a wide variety of dancelike maneuvers and no doubt cost very little. But Lithgow stuck in one whimsical touch. As Pancrace he winds up, at one point, behind the curtain, still arguing with himself. He finishes his speech with a flourish, and just his hand appears above the curtain...
...WARD, "KING OF THE LOBBY," by Lately Thomas. The story of the first real congressional lobbyist to flourish in post-Civil War Washington is a valuable history of the moneyed side of 19th century America. There were few great houses that did not welcome Sam-or his favors...
Much the same might be said of Quicksilver. And like Johnson, Harry Smith isn't magical. He doesn't jump cues the way Johnson does, but he tries too hard to please. Too many of his speeches conclude with a flourish and a raised eyebrow, as if to say, "applause, please." He seemed to be following some prearranged pattern of smiles and announcements, not riding his whim...
...countryside thirsting for violence. Anyone-white or black-who cooperated with Reconstruction was fair game for barbarism. White men who taught in Negro schools were lashed, and their schools were set afire and reduced to ashes. Negroes who refused to work for white men, or who seemed to flourish on their own, were thrashed with whips; some were hanged, some castrated, some burned to death, some murdered and quartered like animals...
...rarely at Paris parties. Instead she retreats to the country house she bought last March in the wooded hills above the Riviera, a secluded, rustic mansion which she has artfully converted into a kind of sanitarium for all that ails her and her friends. She cooks with imagination and flourish, inspects the yield of her chestnut trees, walks in her woods with her German shepherd dog. "I have begun to find serenity in the last few years," she says. "My life used to be in very poor balance...