Mr Szpilman's account of the years in between is a tribute to the power of description and of music.

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His prose has the power of re-description, whereby we are made to notice something hitherto neglected.

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If a student is suicidal, he is going to do everything in his power (even beyond his job description) to get them the help they need and get them acclimated back in school using some unconventional methods like attendance at football games to accomplish his goal.

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One MP described it as "salami slicing power" away from Westminster, which is not a bad description.

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But his job description is not permanent - and that will change after the Schofield report, taking power away from the coach.

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But consumer products that fit the bendy, stretchy description are still very few - in part, because there have been no equally stretchy, rechargeable power sources for them.

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