Word: hems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Visiting Moscow in April, Kennedy saw Brezhnev and asked him to permit Slava to perform in America. Shortly thereafter, the Rostropovich family was given passports. In 1974 Slava went to Harvard to receive an honorary degree. There he saw Felicia, threw himself to his knees and kissed the hem of her dress. To show his gratitude to the Kennedy family, Rostropovich offered to train their son Teddy in the cello...
Talking to Diane Keaton is a bit like playing a record with an unmarked speed: it takes time to get synchronized. At the beginning she will hem and haw, whistle and giggle, mumble and fumble, shrug her shoulders and contort her face. She will start a sentence the way she might climb a tree, worried that the branches will crack or that she will climb too high and not be able to get back down. Gradually, as she gains confidence, the mumbles turn into words, the words into full-and even funny -sentences. "Diane is always totally surprised when people...
...seen in the West, because most of the surviving ones remain in their temples and are the most sacred of cult objects. The Zen master sits in the lotus position on a plain bench; his robe falls almost to the ground; a pair of empty slippers fit below its hem. Its spread belies the slenderness of the old priest, who was probably about 80 when the likeness was made. His face is all parchment and bone. The prow of a nose and the jutting underlip have a fierce antique gravity, like Renaissance portrait sculpture-one thinks of the faces...
...anyway, Bruno has raised the purple hem, revealing that when he tires of the Men's Worldwide Heavyweight Title, he's going for the Women...
...autobiography, he insists, adding in the same breath, "I lay myself bare." Publishers are pounding on his door, even on the beaten brass portals of his Saharan retreat. They should not be disappointed: Saint Laurent is articulate, well read and capable of turning a phrase as neatly as a hem. For example: "Over the years I've learned that what's right in a dress is the woman wearing it." He has no title yet, but it could be called All About Yves...