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After the second encore Starker gazed into the lights of Sanders Theater, showing once again his odd smile, a combination of poker face on the left and subdued grin on the right. The face looked like that of a man who had lost control of one side of his body after a stroke. Such is the character also of Starker's one-sided playing: while he may be in complete control of his technique, his sensitivity is imprisoned, waiting to gain its freedom...
...affect his social life. They have not yet dulled his sense of humor. Last week, when reporters asked him whether he preferred to be addressed as Mr. Secretary or Dr. Secretary, he hesitated only a moment before answering. "I don't stand on protocol," he said with a grin. "If you will just call me Excellency, it will...
...Grin. Blasingame also had to familiarize himself with the idio syncrasies of the Japanese game. It was most difficult for him to understand why fielders smile broadly after mak ing errors. "At first," he says, "I was appalled. No more - that's their way of concealing embarrassment." Says Nomura: "Breiza is so patient that he is almost Japanese...
...effective defender so far: a polite, low-keyed and occasionally apologetic H.R. Haldeman. The much feared former White House chief of staff, so often described as the President's dour and whip-cracking office guardian, answered questions with a seeming directness, patience and on occasion with an engaging grin. The performance was in contrast to the defiant, cleverly evasive witness who had preceded him: John Ehrlichman. Yet before the week's hearings were over, both Ehrlichman and Haldeman had been challenged by the testimony of four CIA or FBI officials...
...Anderson plans to return this fall to what he considers the easier business of the stage, directing a new Storey play. The program notes for his current London production of The Changing Room announce that Lucky Man! will be his "last film." Not precisely true, admits Anderson with a grin. "It was a sort of devilment. I like to advertise that directing a film is not the marvelous thing people think it is. In fact, I just like to make them think. Anyway," he adds, "when in pain I believe in groaning...