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...This is about the people vs. the powers that be, and we'll fight till we drop," said Chuck Hill, 66, the new town manager, one morning. I had invited five people to breakfast; 40 showed up. Thunder Valley Inn owner Anita Nelson, in Norsk regalia, got on the piano and pounded out an anti-Perrier sing-along to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic. And the lesson is this: never underestimate the will or resourcefulness of people who are snowed in half the year...
Almost every modern President has made some structural contribution to the place. When the grand piano belonging to Margaret Truman, President Harry's daughter, was hoisted up to the second floor, a leg punched a hole through the ceiling, which led to the total rebuilding of the interior of the White House. About the same time, the Truman Balcony--which raised the hackles of purists--was added and turned out to be a blessing for those living there. Jackie Kennedy recast the decor with fine art and antiques. An outdoor swimming pool was installed for Jerry Ford and a jogging...
Murray Perahia, the reigning poet of classical piano, first made a name for himself in the '70s with his chaste, sensitive interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Chopin. But Perahia didn't bond with the Baroque genius of Johann Sebastian Bach until an injury to his right thumb forced him off the concert stage for five nerve-racking years. "I needed it spiritually," he explains...
...Korea trying to find her birth mother. We just never dreamed it would be this soon. Then again, since Rae was a toddler, we've told her she was adopted, and she has constantly asked about her birth mother. "Do you think my birth mother plays the piano like I do?" "Do you think my birth mother is pretty?" And then, at 10, after a day of too many stares: a teary "I just want to meet someone I'm related...
...bank account. This summer, in fact, only one sex worker showed up, a 23-year-old who has stripped at the Palace of Pleasure in Portland, Ore. She admits to feeling awed by the Dumas. "The mind reels--you imagine the women hanging on the banisters and the player piano going." So is she glorifying prostitution? "No way. I know for sure this was a rugged business. Douching with Lysol, years of raging alcohol abuse. You see that here too." Many in Butte, however, would rather consign such depressing images to history...