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...three-part directorship is not unheard of, Lester said, citing Sir Lawrence Olivier’s company as an example...
...that led to the slander charge. Kukin also alleged that the heads of federal agencies in the region were beholden for their jobs to the governor. Mezhennaya says she would not have been surprised if the report had triggered a civil suit, "but criminal charges until now have been unheard of." She claims that investigators piled on the pressure, tapping her phones and impounding furniture from her modest one-bedroom apartment. While she was on vacation last autumn she popped up on a federal wanted list. Mezhennaya had to slip home furtively to avoid being picked up at the railway...
...again. I know a newspaper snapper whose moody scene of a desert under a full moon was challenged by an astute reader: my friend had moved the moon to enhance his shot ... and turned it upside down. This decades ago in a darkroom, when computer tricks like morphing were unheard...
...into mere artifice. In Vermeer, everything is subordinated to wholeness and silence. No figures are more self-absorbed than his. That is very much part of their magic: they are so concentrated on what they are doing, and that is never public. A girl plays a virginal, its music unheard. A maid hands a young wife a letter--a love letter from someone other than her husband, we surmise, though it isn't stated. A young woman holds up a pearl to the light from a window...
...first unheard-of departure, Jobs actually started on time. Secondly, his audience was press only rather than press plus trade-show loyalists, which made it rather like watching the Yankees in an empty stadium; our appreciative and respectful silence when he finally held the iBook aloft like a trophy didn't quite cut it. It didn't quite feel like the Emperor was wearing no clothes (he was, in fact, decked out in traditional black turtleneck and blue jeans), but it came close. Thirdly, he was almost - gasp! - subdued during the subsequent interview. I swear, he almost smiled once...