Apparently also the Saudis gave him as presents fabulous bling, […] vast necklaces encrusted with jewels and rubies.

A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.  He looked sideways at the new arrival, wondering who she was.

If we must have male figures in the most conspicuous parts of ballets, they should be young men of light and agreeable figures. … But for the true realization of poetry in motion, the eye of the artist and true amateur requires the beautiful proportions of the female figure.

The polemics are forgotten for the narrow space of half an hour at the airport, they all queue up in quest of Fidel's eminently shakeworthy hand: it is big and strong and supple.