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...mainly the image of Liszt as music's first international superstar, and one of the Romantic Century's great Don Juans, that remains fixed in our 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...
Ludwig van Beethoven probably thought he was taking his secrets to the grave when he died in 1827. He thought wrong. While the composer was decorously interred in his beloved Vienna, most of his hair wasn't; souvenir-hunting fans snipped off so much of his silver mane before burial that he went to his tomb almost bald...
Huffington, 45, laughs it off. "Pericles said courage is knowledge of what not to fear," she said in an interview at her sparsely furnished downtown Washington office. At Gingrich's Progress and Freedom Foundation, Huffington, in her designer suits and coppery mane, is taken very seriously. "The thing some people miss about Arianna is her intellect," says Jeffrey Eisenach, president of the foundation. But, he says, she is no dilettante, even though some people may be led to think so because of her ties to New York society and her wealth (husband Michael is reportedly worth at least $75 million...
...camera when exchanging jokes and smirks. And though joking persists even after Judge Lance Ito enters the chamber, solemnity rules once the camera begins to roll. Even home viewers perceive the impact as they monitor Marcia Clark's Di-like makeover, with hair that's gone from shaggy mane to Madison Avenue sleek and a once frumpy wardrobe that now rivals Grace Van Owen...
Sporting tails and a mane of auburn hair, Brown maneuvered through the ceremonies with aplomb, carrying off the role with her typical ebullient charm...