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...once they fall asleep they don't move, Dr. Kleitman is emphatic: "No normal person sleeps 'like a log.' " Anyone gets uncomfortable from staying in one position while asleep, just as he would while awake. To check this, his University of Chicago researchers rigged up Rube Goldberg devices to bedsprings and got electrical recordings of sleepers' tossing and turning. The average: 20 to 60 major movements during a night's sleep...
...that time Crane had added his vote to those of four independents to give Vellucci a 5-4 majority. But Councillor Bernard Goldberg switched his vote away from Vellucci at the last moment to deprive him of victory...
...other four independents took turns voting for each other. On the first ballot they supported Vice-Mayor Bernard Goldberg, on the second, Daniel J. Hayes, Jr., on the third, Walter J. Sullivan, and on the fourth, Andrew T. Trodden...
Spiritual Momentum. In performance, Tureck, 49, is rigorously severe. She strides to the piano and sits down to play with imposing authority and total concentration. Last week, in her annual Philharmonic Hall performance of the Goldberg Variations, she played without intermission or breaks for applause for 83 minutes-and when she stood at last, the cheers that greeted her seemed like shouts from the heart...
...each key has been shortened a fraction of an inch to make its action more like that of a harpsichord, Gould works tirelessly at recording sessions, positioning the microphone so close to the piano that his constant contrapuntal humming sometimes comes through on the records. His recording of the Goldberg Variations in 1956 kindled his career; since then, his concert career has been made mainly notorious for flashes of eccentricity (playing in mittens, endlessly fiddling with the piano stool), while his recording career has been little short of genius...