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Lefkowitz aimed cautiously, and smiled with satisfaction as the eight-ball disappeared into the side pocket. As he paused for his new challenger to rack the balls, I lit up a cigarette. "Don't you ever worry before you smoke a cigarette that it may do something to you?" he asked. "I'm always a little afraid it will alter my senses, put me a little bit out of control. For years I had this shaky bow arm. All I did was worry about whether I could ever pull a smooth bow. I was terrified that I would never...

Author: By Sarah Crichton, | Title: A Musician To Be Reckoned With | 3/4/1975 | See Source »

Lefkowitz said, chalking his cue. "I guess my basic nature is rather easily impressed. I'm more or less manipulatable. I didn't classically rebel, unlike my sister who quit playing the piano years ago. I guess you could say I'm repressed," and saying this he broke the rack of balls with a shattering crack...

Author: By Sarah Crichton, | Title: A Musician To Be Reckoned With | 3/4/1975 | See Source »

...wearing tiger-striped suits and fake tiger-fur jackets. Their "dates" ("This is my date Sally," was the standard introduction), imported by the bus-and train-load full from Briarcliff, Wheaton, Manhat-tanville, and even as far away as North Carolina, wore outfits that had never known the rack at Filene's basement--or anywhere else, for that matter...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Wexing and Waning | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...Ramadan. The Secretary of State was unable to meet with fasting President Anwar Sadat until after sundown; Kissinger thus had to while away several hours sightseeing. As he flew out of Cairo, a Secret Service agent's submachine gun-an Israeli-made Uzi-fell from a luggage rack aboard Kissinger's Air Force 707 and fired, wounding the agent slightly and setting off a momentary terrorist scare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Seeking Peace Amid New Sounds of War | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

Leave not a rack behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Contemporary Bard | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

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