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...there's a cop beatin' on a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad-an' I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready...
...several sculptures, notably St. George and the Dragon by Fritz Preiss and Fulda's 11th century antependium for Basel Cathedral. An audience favorite is Norman Rockwell, who has four Saturday Evening Post covers this year. As always, the pageant winds up with Da Vinci's Last Supper...
...personal life that includes attending home games of his beloved Boston Celtics and making regular trips to the opera in Manhattan. In the 1970s, after being divorced and successfully fighting to gain custody of his two adolescent sons, Dershowitz would rush home every afternoon to cook the boys' supper. Rearing them, he says, was "the most gratifying" thing he has ever done. Now that both are away at college, he is ready for a new stage in his life. Perhaps a judgeship? "It would be too constraining," says Dershowitz. "It's like asking someone actively involved in sports...
During the Middle Ages, the ancient sanctity of salt slid toward superstition. The spilling of salt was considered ominous, a portent of doom. (In Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the scowling Judas is shown with an overturned saltcellar in front of him.) After spilling salt, the spiller had to cast a pinch of it over his left shoulder because the left side was thought to be sinister, a place where evil spirits tended to congregate...
...retelling, this probably sounds more like a story from a military academy than it should. Even thumbing his scrapbooks in absent reverie or sitting down to supper at home, where the dinner music is a taped interview of young Joe, the elder Montana seems a most benevolent stage father, and his boy's enduring emotion, of many complex ones, appears to be gratitude. "I love my kid, whether he ever played football or not," says the father softly, "but the part of him that made him so special, I loved that...