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- Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in his arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly .
- Petunia gets a reading both sullen and fluttery from Shaw, 51, the piercingly eccentric Irish actress who has dabbled in film (My Left Foot, Persuasion, The Black Dahlia) but is .
- Then one day in 1991, while standing in the kitchen, Gordimer--whose piercingly authoritative phone manner reflects the high moral seriousness of such books as Burger's Daughter .