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After meeting Chernenko, British Social Democratic Leader David Owen, a physician, said that he thought the new Soviet leader was suffering from emphysema, a disease marked by shortness of breath...
...absolutely clear singing inspired metaphors like "a chorus of taxi horns," but words never quite captured its unique qualities. Her trademark was the seemingly effortless ability to sustain a note so long that the orchestra could play phrase after phrase of the melody. Said the Merm: "I take a breath when I have to." What she called her "take-charge" manner was so unlike the spun sugar of other musical-comedy performers that composers shaped songs for her. Among the standards that still call her voice to memory are You're the Top from Anything Goes (1934), There...
...this point, the woman started to cry and mutter under her breath. "I don't understand why they won't help me, I know I should have put it in my purse I've got to get home, what am I going to do. The people around her were starting to get uncomfortable but crying burned off some of the tension and as her fear and confusion subsided her anger rose. "I'm never flying this damn airline again," she said drying her face. Would you people mind terribly if I went ahead of you, I'm sure...
...ranks of South American fabulists. His sprawling novel not only housed more grotesques than a whole rack of Gothic thrillers; it also offered a narrator who pretended to be a deaf-mute, baroque retellings of native legends and a riot of inventiveness. Donoso was inevitably mentioned in the same breath with Borges and Marquez as yet another prophetic surrealist bent on reimagining his colorful, tragic continent...
...landscape play no small role in the overall success of the film in which visual images rise above the language barrier. King Lear is not suitable viewing material for a restless Saturday night; but for an audience willing to participate actively in the drama, it is nothing short of breath-taking...