Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...degree in mathematics, summa cum laude, before choosing music as his profession. "Both fields are very abstract," he says in an interview, "and both give a similar type of pleasure. They both involve the pleasure of puzzle-solving and the pleasure of craftsmanship, and seem to put you in touch with something humanistically profound." Unlike most other fields, he says, social utility is rarely a chief motivation...
...could make fun of himself, including his diminutive (5 ft. 6 in.) height. Writing from Italy in 1956, where he and his family spent a year, he described his rented palazzo: "There is only one chair in the salon where I can sit and have my feet touch the floor and there are two chairs where my feet don't even hang over the edge...
Peter Jay, former British Ambassador to the U.S. and now Maxwell's chief of staff, enters with a load of letters. Maxwell pays the tall, handsome aristocrat something like a quarter of a million dollars a year to add a touch of class to his kingdom. Jay arranges meetings, meals and galas with foreign dignitaries and fields charity requests. "I am not the Salvation Army," bellows Maxwell, as he signs checks for needy causes. But Jay's real challenge is simply to keep the emperor's attention. After the first few letters, Maxwell's mind ticks elsewhere. He can drill...
Keeping in Touch...
Cavellini has kept in touch with other Tent City squatters, he said. One of them is Kim Fitzgerald, who won a bout with alcoholism after Tent City's demise and found an apartment in which to live. But Cavellini said now she is homeless again, this time less hopeful about her future...