Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their uncaged parakeet live in a Düsseldorf public housing project. Haese insists on keeping the apartment so clean that the entire family removes its shoes before entering. Despite many tempting offers, Haese sells only enough works to support himself, asks: "Why should I have a lot of money? What would I do with it? Pay high taxes? We are happy this way." He even spurns offers from friends to sample the delights of caviar or champagne. "It would-only disturb our equilibrium," explains the juggler of modern...
...caps and silk coats like sherwanis. He is also somewhat embarrassed by the oversized portrait of himself, painted by Marion Pike, that hangs in the lobby of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion near the bar; but, typically, Mehta says, "Well, I'll say one thing: the bar makes a lot of money since that portrait...
Finally, Mehta crashed into the broad, exuberant themes of Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life). Looking up with a smile that radiated at once pride, self-mockery and unabashed immodesty, he proclaimed: "I'm quite a lot of a hero...
...version of la vie de bohème; a nonsmoker as well as a nondrinker, he lapped up ice cream and orange juice in the cafes while other students had cigarettes and coffee or brandy. He tirelessly went to concerts, played bass in the academy orchestra ("I learned a lot about orchestra psychology"), and gravitated to the conducting classes of Hans Swarowsky. The revered teacher recognized in Mehta a "demoniac conductor" who "had it all." Nevertheless, he put Mehta through the usual drills: left hand in his pocket, right sleeve tied to a desk, conducting only with wrist movements...
...loose conglomerate of confessional, autobiography and social criticism? Can he really manage to interest enough people in his introspective explanation of why it took him so long to decide that it is better to have money, power and fame than not to have them? He is asking a lot...