Meeting Norman Lewis, one was struck by his tremendous politeness; by his melodic, rasping voice that somehow commanded attention, somewhere between a suburban drill sergeant's and a naturalist's, stalking a timorous bird; by his great liking for almost any red wine; and by his shyness.
Back in Lowell, Sox has fallen asleep, which means her eyes are closed and a command center somewhere around the world has tuned into other seniors and other conversations.
Over two solid days, the cream of this city's civic leadership has courted the Democratic Party's national convention for 2000 with every carrot at its command, and somewhere between the margaritas and the mariachis, the exploding wall of balloons and the flying angel, the intensity of the effort took on a sweetly comic small-town air.
"Move, you're in the way," the voice from somewhere up in the balcony at Carnegie Hall commanded the conductor SKITCH HENDERSON, who was standing where conductors usually stand, on the podium.
Indeed, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota raised its insurance premiums 74percentt from 2000 to 2007 and its incoming president commands a salary of somewhere between $500,000 and $750,000.
Somewhere in this moment, my soul, somewhere in this moment all that I have known, all that felt, all that I have experienced have commanded me to say, what do you do now?" -- Harry Belafonte.
Hyperallergic's Lyric Prince, for example, wrote that the work was "at best, salacious," and commanded that Walker, who claimed she was "tired of standing up, being counted, tired of 'having a voice,'" go somewhere else and "sit down".
Perhaps the biggest single reason he commanded so much affection is that he could so easily have joined the queue of former Labour MPs who left politics in the early 1980s to earn better money somewhere else.
It's about love and trust, about being sweet but still complicated, cocky but non-threatening, sexy but not precisely sexual — whether you're commanding the Wehrmacht or hiding in an attic somewhere in the Netherlands.
