Word: heights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obviously locals. "My brother got me a statue here last week. He thought I'd like it," says one, the soft twang of his western Virginia accent confirming the visual evidence. "I don't. Can I trade it in on something else?" Harper, a stocky man of medium height, thinks a moment, then replies, "I don't see why not. What kind of statue was that, anyway?" "Some kind of mannequin" is the reply...
...went with the story, which was told like a movie in panels on paper. By strictest definition, that made The Dark Knight Returns a comic book, but that term, with its unfortunate suggestions of arrested adolescent development, did not accommodate either the breadth of Miller's story or the height of his ambition...
...want any of that hatchet stuff," he says with a not- quite-disarming smile. Still, Dole remains incorrigible. Even his blandest remarks about the Vice President have an edge. "George Bush and I have a lot in common," Dole said. Pause. "We're about the same height." Even when Dole claims that Bush is a friend, he cannot resist adding, "the last time I checked...
...unlikely superstar. Of average height, his long hair a tousled brown arch across his forehead, the man in the tailored, gray pinstriped flannel suit digging into his sole at La Cote Basque could be mistaken for just another of Manhattan's prosperati were it not for one distinctive habit. Sometimes it comes during pauses in conversation, other times in mid-thought. Ever so softly, but frequently and with total absorption, Andrew Lloyd Webber is humming to himself...
...because the two mark such different tangents to the norm, their incidence can, in its way, be an index of a society's health. The height of British eccentricity, for example, coincided with the height of British power, if only, perhaps, because Britain in its imperial heyday presented so strong a center from which to depart. Nowadays, with the empire gone and the center vanishing, Britain is more often associated with the maladjusted weirdo -- the orange-haired misfit or the soccer hooligan...