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...firm began life in 1904, when Charles Rolls, an aristocratic automobile aficionado and dealership owner, joined forces with fledgling carmaker Henry Royce. Then and now, the company's cars were big, powerful, stately and silent. In 1931, Rolls bought out more sporty rival Bentley, and for decades the cars were stablemates, eventually becoming fairly indistinguishable from one another, though Bentleys were always slightly less expensive...
...Watson’s first controversial remark. In 2003, an Australian newspaper reported Watson as saying that pregnant women should have the choice to abort their unborn fetus if testing determined that it would be genetically inclined to be gay. Aside from his public apology, Watson has kept silent on his remarks and has declined to be interviewed by the media. —Staff writer Alexander B. Cohn can be reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu...
...soldiers joke darkly when they talk about what was left of Iskandariyah's mayor after he was blown up by a powerful roadside bomb called an EFP earlier this month. They have to. The details are so horrible that one either laughs or cries, or falls into that numb, silent stupor known to combat-hardened troops as the thousand-yard stare. They know EFPs are often aimed at them...
...like to exploit that as much I can during a race.”Coxswain calls are the only audible element of a crew race, save for the monotonous whoosh of the oars after the blade squares and feathers with each stroke. Their words narrate an otherwise silent race, offering encouragement and support to athletes whose goal it is to end a race with no strength left to row another stroke.“Somebody being able to channel their voice to motivate eight great athletes in that kind of way is a very special thing,” Davis...
...magazine are on display, with the models looking stiff despite their glorious capes and dresses. Contrast these wooden images with the imaginative fashion shots of Steichen's later years, like White, a classy composition of three women and a horse. One of the exhibition's surprises is a silent publicity film, Edward Steichen, America's Foremost Photographer, showing the cigar-smoking, three-piece-suited artiste surrounded by assistants and equipment, coaxing a beautiful model to pose, and then selecting the best images to print...