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...sprawling series of demos he had recorded at home; Godrich listened and announced that he would work only on the songs that interested him. "No '50s rock-'n'-roll pastiche numbers," says Godrich. "He's a jolly old soul, but I thought maybe just for once we could steer him away from those things." After a week of recording, Godrich told McCartney that his regular band had to sit this one out. "In any tense moment, he'd look over at those guys and say, 'What do you think?' It was too easy for him to deflect getting...
...Numbers 6 hr. 13 min. Time it took Hilary Lister, a 33-year-old Briton paralyzed below the neck, to sail across the English Channel, sucking and blowing into straws to steer the vessel...
...Throughout their 20-minute conversation, DeFede says, he tried to steer the conversation to less volatile subjects in the hopes of lifting Teele's spirits. ?Again, he's got the saddest voice I've ever heard of with Art,? DeFede says. ?I tried to move onto a different subject - his upcoming trial on the bribery case and he had a good attorney.? But that line of conversation only prompted Teele to think about how he didn't have any money to pay his attorney fees. ??I'm dead in the water; I'm dead in the water,'? DeFede recalls Teele...
...tried to steer his friend to a neutral topic, asking about a community project in Overtown, a predominantly black neighborhood in Miami, and story ideas for his column. ?Where the conversation started in a very emotional way, with him almost crying, we had moved to where Art was on an even keel. I took that as a good sign. As the conversation came to an end, he said, ?Jim, I thank you for your kindness.' He said on the tape, ?You are one of the only reporters I trust. You are one of the few people I trust...
...Vason, an English missionary dropped on one of the country's 170 islands in 1797, we know that Tongans used to surf. From the shore he would watch the natives take "particular delight" in an amusement they called fanifo. "It is astonishing to see with what dexterity they will steer themselves on the waves," Vason wrote, "one hand being stretched out, as the prow before, and the other guiding them like a rudder behind. Several hours are often spent at one time in this sport, in which the women are as skillful...