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Material that Margolis says was in the prospectus prepared jointly with Kassorla turns up almost word for word in the book. "There's no holding back. The spotlight is on her," swoons the prospectus. "The man becomes the orchestrator, playing her body as if it were a precious instrument." A similar passage is in Nice Girls Do: "There's no holding back. The spotlight is on you. Your partner becomes the musician, playing your body as if it were a precious instrument...
...George Szell turned a regional ensemble into a crack musical regiment: "If it can be done in that city, it can be done in St. Louis." Adds Simmons: "I'm not even thinking about leaving Oakland. Here, I am able to build something that is basically my own instrument. Why go somewhere else and start over again...
...speech two weeks ago, the general said that in any future war the news would have to be controlled to hold public support: "Viet Nam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country...
...Aubuisson, 38, has a reputation for terror that belies his boyish good looks and his present efforts to moderate his image (see box). A one-time armed forces intelligence officer, he gained the nickname of Major Blowtorch for his reputed skill at interrogating with that instrument. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert E. White, testifying before a U.S. Senate Committee, said that there is "evidence, if not 100% conclusive, that D'Aubuisson and his group are responsible for the murder of Archbishop Romero." White also linked D'Aubuisson to the right-wing death squads, a charge that...
...house to comfort her. While she sits in the hot tub, her troubles oozing away. Brandon fixes a snack in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Derek lurks in the bushes, watching all. When Brandon finishes slicing some cheese with a knife better suited to slicing through jungle, he rams the instrument into the remaining cheese block. Schmoeller cuts away, but he can't resist coming back and lingering on the knife in the cheese. You can guess what happens moments later. Derek stabs the unsuspecting Brandon in the back...