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...would be able to block the camera from Lexington High instead. The kid from the high school had come out there with a paper sign taped to his baseball cap identifying himself as press; had thought to grab a garbage bag to cover the equipment; had lugged a stool probably from his house; and he couldn't shoot, couldn't see the goddamn podium. The supporter wanted it that...
...first time, the government is urging everyone over age 50 to have regular screenings for colon and rectal tumors. Annual tests for blood in the stool and periodic exams, with a scope, of the rectum and colon are suggested...
...COUNTY'S CARVER SOUNDS LIKE A carbon copy of a contemporary fixture: the blowhard with the warmest stool and coldest coffee in any cafe in the rural West. His newfound celebrity has made him untouchable, a sort of O.J. of the Purple Sage, as he and his cronies come dangerously close to joining the ranks of the cop killers. All assaults on public employees, regardless of weapon, should be vigorously prosecuted. JOHN WALKER, Coaldale, Colorado...
ONSTAGE, KEITH JARRETT belies his cerebral, prickly reputation. Swept up in the trancelike flow of his jazz improvisations, he levitates from the piano stool like Jerry Lee Lewis, head thrust back and howling with pleasure. Beneath his fluid fingers, the keyboard ripples spontaneously, spinning out an endless series of riffs and variations, while his lyrical bassist, Gary Peacock, and elegant drummer, Jack DeJohnette, match him move for move. Heads nod approvingly as the melody is handed off from instrument to instrument, three men doing what they love best: making music with hand and heart...
...would find your way into her paintings, as did the theater critic Carl Van Vechten, author of the novel Nigger Heaven and prime link between downtown white New York and the Harlem Renaissance, posing in rapturously exaggerated contrapposto in 1922's Portrait of Carl Van Vechten on a red stool on a black rug on a red carpet; while in Portrait of Stieglitz, 1928, the shoe and cane (nothing else) of artist Charles Demuth enter from the left, and the gloved, ermine-cuffed hand of the preposterous New York dandy Baron de Meyer appears on the right...