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...collective memory: a slim, strikingly handsome six-footer with a flowing mane of shoulder-length hair, a piano conjurer able to summon near orchestral effects and rouse audiences to such frenzied emotional states that the poet Heinrich Heine coined the term "Lisztomania." "I think I laughed--laughed like an idiot" is how Edvard Grieg described his ecstatic reaction to Liszt's playing. George Eliot's recorded impressions of Liszt come very close to swooning...
...driver's license, though she held world freestyle records in the 400-m, 800-m and 1,500-m distances. She swam with a strange, windmilling, stiff-armed stroke. "It's not one you would teach," says Mark Schubert of U.S.C., her coach these days, "but only an idiot would have tried to change...
...decade seems ridiculous in retrospect, its absurdities left exposed after the smoke has cleared. In memory, the '70s seem wincingly stupid--that idiot disco music, those haircuts, those shirts and ties. Why pick...
...Even a small fire can set off the sprinklers and cause tens of thousands of dollars of water damage; a large fire can be tragic. The staff writes that we should be treated as adults. As much as I enjoy autonomy, I don't feel like dying because the idiot next door doesn't know how to handle an open flame. If smoking and kitchens prove to be fire hazards, then perhaps those should be banned...
...Tucker, he managed to beach the car on the dividing strip of North University Street in Little Rock, stopping traffic during rush hour. McDougal was unfazed, chatting with Tucker as though nothing had happened. "Don't get out and look around, giving everyone the satisfaction of seeing what an idiot you've been," he told his passenger. "Don't worry. Somebody will come and take care of this." (Someone...