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...toed gait he used for Malvolio. To this he has added a wonderful pasty face and a hilarious mannerism of gargling his r's in words like 'warble' and 'warp.' Since Jaques not only is a malcontent but also enjoys parading his melancholia, he carries a little notebook and pencil in which to jot down cynical quips for future use. Another bull's-eye for Kerr...
...Tiger track shoe in each hand. By the last stretch, five men waving billowing Finnish flags had filtered down from the stands and joined the victory lap to the roars of 60,000 spectators. Left behind was Viren, who had slowed to a walk and looked on with a pencil-thin hint of a smile...
Instructive Figure. He studied landscape design and was a botanist. He was also one of the first foreigners to discern, as minister to France in the 1780s, the challenging merits of new artists like Jacques Louis David and Antonio Canova. "I do not feel an interest in any pencil but that of David," he wrote in a flush of enthusiasm. Jefferson became the first American to transcend the cultural provinciality of his own land, moving with some ease between the New World and the Old. Even if he had had no political life, he would on that ground alone have...
...Pencil. The result was a DNC "media update" to the 175 press organizations that have assigned some 10,000 journalists, technicians and aides to the convention. It offered names of equipment suppliers in New York City so that long-distance comparison shopping would be possible, and warned that deliveries to the Statler Hilton and the Garden should be firmly scheduled. The reason: labor charges for moving equipment in and out of the two buildings could substantially exceed the rental price of the equipment itself. The company handling Garden deliveries has been unable to offer any cost estimates...
Flesh never does anything in a small way. When he gets sick, even his sclerosis is multiple. Characteristically, misfortune only intensifies his awareness of an America where executives carry attaché cases "like adult pencil boxes," where a trip through an automatic car wash seems like a sea storm by Joseph Conrad, where professors of English name their dogs Hemingway and stockbrokers name theirs Florida Power & Light...