It's frustrating to have that happen when I pust so much effort into my work, and equally frustrating to have someone say it's my fault that my pages are performing as well as they should.

Osfryd Kettleblack held her chair; a page performed the same service for Sansa.

Unlike the hall boys, who did heavy work, these pages performed light odd jobs and were liveried when the aristocrat was entertaining.

Indeed, Sykes's book is so fine, the science so well explained, the controversies so gripping, that it is painful to report that 200 pages into it the author performs a literary experiment that flops.

One of Mr. Marsalis's more remarkable orchestrations was a shimmering repeated figure in piano and woodwinds underneath the rest of the rollicking ensemble, almost as if a page from Morton Feldman's "For Samuel Beckett," performed last weekend at the Lincoln Center Festival '96, had blown onto the music stand.

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