Word: signalman
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...because sailors' wives are often left at home alone while their husbands are at sea. The 18-year-old newlywed was slain in the early-morning hours of July 8, 1997, in her apartment in a low-rent brick building. She had been expecting her husband Billy, a Navy signalman, home that day from his weeklong tour of duty. After Billy discovered her body, stabbed in the chest, on the bedroom floor, the local police were under enormous pressure to solve the crime quickly. By the second day of the investigation, the clues seemed to be falling nicely into place...
...entwined. Where Lloyd Webber scores is with the score. It would have been easy for the composer to fall back on a lush, serve-all orchestral cushion. But to his credit, he tries something sparse, minimalist and deliberately discomfiting. In a scene borrowed from a Charles Dickens story (The Signalman), the Act I curtain rises on a bitingly cold railway cutting, telegraph wires whipping ominously in the wind. It's an unsettling, otherworldly sound, and thereafter the score strains to upset expectations; major keys turn to minor with a shudder, songs end in a subdued moan. The arrangement...
...about offending people--everyone swore." But then he worked with a female colleague on a fire drill. "I found out that I didn't have to yell to get her to do something," he says. Another difference: modesty prevails. "You can't walk around in your underwear anymore," notes Signalman Second Class Terry Cole...