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Leon Jaworski knew Presidents. He was in a White House bedroom one day when Lyndon Johnson disrobed, and the Texas lawyer beheld the Emperor without a stitch on. Later, as president-elect of the American Bar Association in 1971, he met with Nixon for an hour. "Nixon was eager to discuss matters and be of help," recalls Jaworski. "I can see Ehrlichman yet, sitting right next to him taking notes on a yellow pad." It was a good meeting...
...this time things worked in reverse," coach Bill McCurdy commented after the meet. "I suspect he got a stitch at that point because his time until then was faster than last week's." Keefe finished at 24:30, 15 seconds off his opening meet time...
...artists, however, is an irreverence toward the accepted rules about what a photograph can or cannot be, can or cannot do. In an effort to express their private and often idiosyncratic views of modern life, these artists apply paint, beads and hair to their pictures, cut them up and stitch them together. They explore the artistic potential of old techniques--like gum bichromate, solarization, and cyanotype--and new chemical processes like polaroid and 3-M color. They borrow images from television and porno-magazines, create scenes in the darkroom which were never seen by a camera's eye and photosensitize...
...Sting, however, was a snap. Director George Roy Hill had already decided to use Joplin's classic rags and, admits Hamlisch, "I was like an East Side tailor. I'd stitch in a minute of music here, 35 seconds there-it took only eight hours to do the whole...
Some of The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin is undeniably opaque, irritating, pretentious and self-indulgent. Few playwrights would have the nerve to stitch together a dramatic conglomerate as Wilson has done, containing portions of his previous works such as The King of Spain, The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud and Deafman Glance. But considering its sprawling length, Stalin is remarkably free from boredom. This is a token of its visual mesmerism and incessant variety. One moment the stern, noble mien of the aged Sigmund Freud will appear as he walks about the stage on his wife...