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...Heard Indian Museum, which holds an annual and overcrowded handcraft sale, her son Scott wanted one item badly but had broken his leg in a skiing accident. Instead of using her clout to bypass a long line of buyers, his mother spent several hours sitting on a camp stool to await her turn...
...supreme court: "He comes off as so real that jurors trust him. They have to decide which side to be on, and if he wants to be your friend, you can barely resist him." Spence likes to illustrate his arguments with graphic props, such as an old milking stool whose legs he removes, one by one, to show how his opponent's case collapses without certain supports. He also favors folksy sayings like "You've got to get the hogs out of the spring if you want to get the water cleared...
...musters all of her commanding appeal as a brothel madam singing "I Never Do Anything Twice." Perched on a stool by the piano, a black lace shawl draped over her shoulders. Reed stretches out her legs, throws back her head and recounts escapades with kinky abbotts and other unusual clients, always returning to the admonishment that she never repeats her experiences. Her husky voice seeps into the darkness around the spotlight, reaching the back rows with its delicious bawdiness...
Morning, which has now been retitled Morning with Charles Kuralt, is the classiest of the three, bearing more resemblance to a magazine than a newspaper. The set, yellow and white, is on separate platforms, and Kuralt sits on an artist's stool, with an easel containing his notes off to the side. Like Hartman, he has a relaxed, down-home manner; but he also comes across as someone who actually enjoys thinking, the barefoot boy with a paperback copy of Homer sticking out of his back pocket...
...sing. To play the canary. To be a stool pigeon. The blackest humor jeers behind the slang for acting as informer -naming names. To say the word "informer" is to evoke the history of betrayal, to hear the ring of 30 pieces of silver. Yet for a brief period in the late '40s and '50s the community's moral leper was promoted to something of a cultural hero. That elevation was not so odd as it first appeared. Soviet espionage, after all, was no fiction: wartime thieves of atomic secrets had been tried and convicted in federal...