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Once he mounts his specially air-conditioned podium,* he rivets his cobalt-blue gaze on the musicians and sweeps into the music with a concentration so intense that he likes to think it hypnotic. He is thickset and stubby (5 ft. 5 in.), but he makes up for his small stature with big gestures. At one rehearsal Ormandy swung his fist down for a crescendo and accidentally knocked out the orchestra's librarian, who happened to be standing too close...
...sign over the door, and I went to get coffee to go. Too late, I discovered that hatred hadn't advertised--perhaps the sign had blown off in a storm. When I ordered the coffee, all the other voices stopped. I turned from cold stares and fixed my gaze on a sign over the counter. "ALL
...what is now California's Yosemite National Park soar in the background as the 2,400-foot Yosemite Falls plunges in perfect perspective from under the top of the picture frame into the valley below. Painter Bierstadt traveled to the Athenaeum summers until his death in 1902 to gaze at his masterwork, often dabbing here and there where the paint had flaked. As Fairbanks and his kin passed on, the collection grew through bequests, now numbers 87 paintings and ten sculptures, including works by Jasper Cropsey, William and James Hart and Thomas Moran. Today the Athenaeum remains unchanged...
...contemptuous." Nor did the order stop there: it sent the sheriff hustling to Neal's office to arrest him for criminal contempt of court - punishable in Indiana by up to three months' imprisonment and a $500 fine. Haling Neal to his courtroom, where four mounted animal heads gaze down impassively on the accused, Judge New set bail at a whopping...
...silvery 102-story shaft of the Empire State Building looms through the picture windows in the Manhattan offices of Real Estate Partners Lawrence A. Wien and Harry B. Helmsley. They gaze on it with a unique warmth: along with 3,000 other investors in a syndicate they formed four years ago, they have a 114-year lease on it. The tower is a fitting emblem of their domain, which last week made a major expansion. For an undisclosed sum, the partners bought the entire fiefdom of hotels and movie houses assembled over 47 years by J. (for Junius) Myer Schine...