Word: spouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spanish Rhapsody is entirely a display piece; Berman's epic double-octave runs near the end were breathtaking. The choice of Beethoven's crisp, bouncy Sonata No. 18, Op. 31, No. 3, rather than one of the composer's mightier scores, was wise: one does not spout deep philosophy at a fireworks display. Berman's playing of the sonata was immaculate, and not without humor...
...THEATRICAL SUPERSTITIONS. I pride myself on not having any, none at all. I always deliberately walk under a ladder. I spout lines from Macbeth [supposedly a British actor's most terrible jinx], I don't give a damn...
...have a wider padded seat and incorporate two water jets for cleansing. Many washbasins, he finds, are built "so low as to be ideal only for small children." He proposes a contoured bowl, 36 in. high, deep at one end, wide and shallow at the other, with a fountain spout that can be used for mouth washing and shampooing...
...preserve "the gains made by the revolution" and to continue to build a socialist Portugal. But he also promised a "democratic pluralism" that he pointedly said would extend to the news media-a slap at the Communist unions that use the state-owned radio, TV and newspapers to spout the party line. Despite their token representation in the Cabinet, the Communists eye the new regime with scarcely veiled hostility. Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal told cheering followers in Lisbon's Campo Pequeno bull ring that if the government should move too far to the right, "we will join battle...
...never mentions that Alger Hiss, for example, was convicted of perjury for lying about his involvement with Chambers and that this verdict was delivered at the end of a trial which, the judge declared, centered on whether Chambers was telling the truth. Belfrage is too busy rushing on to spout another unsupported statement: "With respect to the Bomb, the Russians were fully capable of making their own..." This scattershot method, of course, was invented by that famous American political leader who once said that if this story didn't work, he had another which would: the junior Senator from Wisconsin...