Word: overwound
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...technique is flawless, but his repertory grows slick and showy. The fingers remain like coiled springs; the man, too, is tense and overwound. He refuses to fly, cannot rest on trains. His fee rises from $500 to $3,000 per concert; he works only six months a year and never gives more than two concerts a week. Still, the springs keep tightening, the stomach keeps churning. Hypochondria becomes real illness. There is an injured finger, tonsillitis, flu, a stomach ailment-then, abruptly, the spring breaks, the mechanism winds down, the long pyrotechnics stop short. Horowitz takes a vacation. The vacation...
When Promoter Ingersoll overwound and broke his financial mainspring in the early '20s, Waterbury bought his name and took over marketing of the Ingersoll watch. Waterbury fell on hard times itself during the Depression, but pulled itself out largely by making the Mickey Mouse watch...
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