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...derby hats, leaning precariously from the balconies and reflected in the mirrors, and the more elegant crowds that thronged Tiepolo's ceilings. Sickert never condescended, and his portraits of the now forgotten stars of this dead form of entertainment are done with fine straightforwardness: The Lion Comique, 1887 (patter singers in white tie were known as "lions" or "mammoths" in the stage argot of the day), with his baggy tails and painted backdrop of a lake, is seen as precisely as any Manet...
...room, where as the youngest and shortest of three boys, he was also the loudest. "After dinner, we would perform for 20 or so relatives impressions of Aunt Rose with the sagging upper arms and Uncle Max with the pants the size of New Jersey." He learned show-biz patter, pulling his chair alongside the old Magnavox TV and pretending to be the next guest on the Jack Paar show, peeking down Jayne Mansfield's dress and rolling his eyes, flacking his latest gig. "You know, Jack, I'm really looking forward to eighth grade. A lot of interesting transfers...
...hard to conceive how the gentle patter of fingers over a computer keyboard could do such damage. People have, after all, been typing for decades, and computers would seem to be an improvement over clunky ) typewriters. But word processors pose special problems. They allow workers to sit with their fingers flying across the keyboard at 240 strokes a minute for hours without a break. A typewriter, by contrast, forces workers to pause every so often to move the carriage or change the paper. The amount of time spent at the keyboard is critical: a study in Australia found that people...
...eight-bus caravan pulled into Manchester for a carefully orchestrated "unscheduled" stop. The local Democrats had done their part -- a crowd of nearly 1,000 had been waiting for several hours to gambol in the limelight. Gore, fast becoming the Ed McMahon of political warm-up acts, gave his patter- perfect introduction, complete with the mawkish reminder that Clinton's father died three months before Clinton was born. Then Clinton clambered up onto the small outdoor podium for a quick rendition of his stump speech. Knowing all too well how easily this political magic can fade, he tried to inoculate...
...hottest and most savory TV cooking show is produced by San Francisco's California Culinary Academy and KQED. The series, which has been shown on PBS channels, features no-name, no-frills chefs who skip yuks and patter in favor of precise instructions on how to concoct their light, low-fat, au courant recipes. In just four months, a cookbook featuring dishes from the series sold more than 90,000 copies...