Word: stools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remembered as shy and pleasant by most of his acquaintances, the Hollywood drinking crowd in the area of an apartment he rented and at the St. Francis Hotel, where he also stayed, recall him as an obsessive racial bigot, an abrasive patron who belted screwdrivers, dozed on the bar stool and bickered with anyone around. Everyone at the Rabbit's Foot Club remembers Gait's big dispute. A young woman had the temerity to tell him that Negroes were "good people." This so enraged Gait that he grabbed her arm and hauled her to the door, shouting...
Once on, Liller performed an old Nat Sci 2 crowd-pleaser on Carson. Sitting the comedian on a piano stool with two weights in his hands, he spun Carson around on stage, demonstrating how Carson speeded up with the weights close to his chest and slowed down when they were farther away...
Cold as a Coot. In making visibility "the primary function of the King," says De Gramont, Louis XIV reduced the royal drama to pageantry-style's exquisite confession of meaninglessness. Even the King's defecation became a public act staged on a stool decorated with mother-of-pearl landscapes...
...informer, he got his 56-year sentence in 1952. After eight months in Charlestown State Prison near Boston, he doped a guard's coffee, stowed away in a box of rags and was shipped out. He made it to New Jersey, where he fell afoul of another stool pigeon. Back he went to Charlestown. Next, he and five others managed to sneak in some guns and build a ladder. The idea was to pin down the lone tower guard with gunfire and climb the ladder over the wall. Everything went as planned, except that at the key moment...
...groaning board: jugged deer with Spdtzle; marrow consomme; steak Tartare; saltimbocca romana ("He sent the rice back"); Movenpick ice-cream tart; Haldengut Pilsen beer; Cognac; Coca-Cola; Johannisberg wine, and one Bloody Mary. During one recording session, confides Stockhausen, "every movement that Kontarsky made caused his piano stool to creak on the wooden floor," a difficulty that caused a one-and-a-half-hour delay in the recording of Stockhausen's staccato, rather eerie Music...