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...rooting this week? "Whoever was paying him," says Creamer. "I suspect that would be the Mets, still trotting him out at 110." They would prop him up on the mound, and the Old Professor would peer in at the Yankees bench. After a dramatic pause, he would flagrantly thumb his nose...
...Blind Blake, however, provides a much more substantial link to the direction the guitar would take. Blake played in the more sophisticated ragtime style, laying down syncopated bass lines with his thumb while picking out complex melodic patterns with his fingers, and anyone interested in the fingerpicking styles of Ry Cooder (who recorded Blake's "Diddie Wa Diddie") and Jorma Kaukonen can hear where it all started on these tracks. The Blake collection also benefits from better fidelity, perhaps a function of the guitarist's forceful playing style, which projects with considerably greater impact than Jefferson's. But both anthologies...
Murray Perahia, the reigning poet of classical piano, first made a name for himself in the '70s with his chaste, sensitive interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Chopin. But Perahia didn't bond with the Baroque genius of Johann Sebastian Bach until an injury to his right thumb forced him off the concert stage for five nerve-racking years. "I needed it spiritually," he explains...
...hope for such alchemical results may originate in an anti-elitist assumption and an impulse to stick a thumb in the eye of power--the underlying reason, for example, for Jesse Ventura's election as governor of Minnesota or, again, for Truman's victory over the smug little man on the wedding cake...
...outside hero, or the fabric wizard and social innocent of "The Man in the White Suit." But thinking that's Guinness up there onscreen is a mistake. He once said, "I try to get inside a character and project him - one of my own private rules of thumb is that I have not got a character until I have mastered exactly how he walks.... It's not sufficient to concentrate on his looks. You have got to know his mind - to find out what he thinks, how he feels, his background, his mannerisms...