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...telescope. But for five months this season, home is the hotels and motels of America. Lanky, high-domed and bespectacled, Tennstedt can be a vertiginous sight on the podium. He will perch precariously on his toes when all hands are playing furiously, or do a deep knee bend during tender moments. In his lexicon of body English, an avian flap of the elbow is as meaningful as a sword thrust of the baton. The fluid gestures may be idiosyncratic, but they rarely fail to communicate. Says Tennstedt: "The musician must have the feeling that what the conductor wants is absolutely...
...goal tender, has a law degree from McGill. Tall and intellectual, Dryden sees his team as a duality "First," he says, "is what we are: a hockey team that wins. That's what we are and all we are, really. But beyond that, there's the way people perceive us. More than a hockey team. That sort of thing. If you think about it enough, you can ask yourself which are you, the team that is or the team that people perceive...
...cruising the underground tributaries of the gay world, Williams remains an artist, obsessively devoted to his craft. "Ordinarily my ratio of concerns is something like this," he tells Windham. "Fifty per cent work and worry over work, 35% the perpetual struggle against lunacy, 15% a very true and very tender love for those who have been and are close to me as friends and as lover. But [sometimes] the ratio changes to something like this: Work and worry over work, 89%; struggle against lunacy (partly absorbed in the first category) 10%; very true and tender love for lover and friends...
...never have to be a patient.' " As expected, many of the nays came from those employed by nursing homes, already the subject of widespread criticism. But there was also a surprising number of negative responses from small (under 200-bed) hospitals, traditionally thought to be the models of tender, loving care. Reported a nurse from one of these vest-pocket institutions: "Our emergency room has been known to call in a certain dentist for some cases when they can't reach...
...room, listen to records, have a couple of drinks, smoke a few cigarettes and steal a few kisses," she remembers. According to Summersby, stolen kisses were as much as the wartime friends could manage. Summersby claims that the general was impotent when they tried to make love. "Ike was tender, careful, loving," she says. "But it just didn't work...