Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other strangers he welcomed with rambling tales of past battles, and searching hints that "the spirit" was still in strife. The enemy always turned out to be something deeper than prejudice and more dangerous than moneygrubbing; it was whatever interfered with living fully, in the moment. He was in pain much of the time. Lying on the cot in his cavelike "office" just off the gallery, he used to say that now he himself was "in retreat. I just lie here, trying to understand...
...ever ridden. If he loses, he can still relax on his 300-acre Wiltshire farm, race pigeons, fly airplanes-and ride a winner a day or so later. If that's the way it must be, relaxed, competent Jockey Richards can take it, without too much pain. Says he: "I've got a good bed, a good wife and a good car . . . that's really...
...battery-operated device called the "Electreat" for giving a harmless electric shock. Before the manufacturer was enjoined by the Food & Drug Administration, "Electreat" was represented as helpful for goiter, kidney trouble, heart pain, broken bones, childbirth paralysis and deafness. Price: $19.50. Sales: 4,000 a year...
...Pain & Revolt. No classical artist demands and so often gets Rubinstein's high minimum guarantee ($3,500 a concert), but he is a good investment. At one concert in Lincoln, Neb. last year, Rubinstein earned $5,400 as his share of the box-office receipts. His Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 was Victor's 1946 best-selling classical album. The $85,000 he collected for three days' piano playing for the movie I've Always Loved You is still a Hollywood record...
...definable. Rubinstein is at his best in Chopin, and vice versa. Chopin's elusive poetic shadings and magical fire are easy to overdo. As a Pole, Rubinstein seems to understand the zal in Chopin's works, which Music Critic James Huneker defined as "a baleful compound of pain, sadness, secret rancor and revolt...