She knew how to do things and make things and even her good looks were competent, a straightforward sort of ableness, open and clear-eyed, with a smatter of fading freckles and a dirty-minded smile.

His name is Harry E Thompson and his Trickle-Down solar heating system is the basis for this book.

Her confident, full-bodied playing was well suited to the D-Major Sonata, with its quasi-orchestral textures and long, divertissementlike structure (both of which Mozart surely derived from the keyboard style of JC Bach).

Dery describes Bowie as a reverse-drag queen: a heteroflexible straight man playing an exquisitely androgynous gay.