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From the piano bench, Menahem Pressler glances over his shoulder at his two companions, violinist Isidore Cohen and cellist Bernard Greenhouse, each seemingly lost in concentration. Yet the audience hears what the musicians themselves feel: that they are not three performers, but one--one spirit bringing three instruments into unison. Each man is sensitive to the varying moods of his two companions: if one shows signs of interpreting the piece in a special way, the other two pick up on it and follow his lead. "The raising of an eyebrow, the way a phrase is constructed," explains Greenhouse, "can tell...
...gone was the $220,000 Tarnower had left her in his will; under state law convicted murderers forfeit any bequests from their victims. Gone also are the comfortable weekends at the house in Westchester County she considered home, gone is the man she loved. The deputy touched Harris' shoulder. She rose slowly, shook off the hand. Softly she said, "I must go now," and left to spend her first night in jail as a convicted killer...
...final week as anchorman Cronkite is at his desk as the bright lights turn on about ten minutes before the broadcast, in the low-ceilinged newsroom on Manhattan's West Side. In shirtsleeves, Cronkite reads through the copy with a stopwatch, addresses a question over his shoulder to whoever should know the answer ("Don't we have any more on this?"), occasionally turns to the typewriter to rephrase a sentence. Nobody speaks to him unless spoken to. The same sort of invisible cocoon isolates a professional football coach on the sideline from the players around him. Someone unobtrusively...
...President has promised income tax cuts, and Congress has indicated its willingness to legislate at least some of them-maybe. But as many as 3,500 taxpayers in the Flint, Mich., area just cannot wait. They have been refusing to shoulder their federal burden by claiming dubious tax exemptions as clergymen, filing their 1040 forms with UNCONSTITUTIONAL! scrawled across the page or in some cases claiming as many as 99 dependents in order to reduce federal withholding from their paychecks to zero...
Mark V. Matthews '83 said that one of the officers broke his arm during the arrest and officials at Cambridge City Hospital confirmed yesterday that they treated Matthews for a dislocated shoulder Saturday morning...