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...Manhasset, N.Y. Most active in the '40s and '50s, he wrote everything from Frank Sinatra ballads (What Now My Love) to TV theme songs ("Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen"). His last major hit was the theme for Love Story (Where Do I Begin?), a sentimental coda to a remarkable career...
...active in the far-right John Birch Society, which touts her as one of its speakers. Indeed, Foster's rants, calling schools "Marxist training camps," probably won't penetrate Bush's strong center-right coalition. But the pick of a black female Bircher seems fitting--the perfectly weird coda to the Reform Party's weird year...
...building opened to the London public that may be said to have written a dramatic coda to this narrative of building. It is one of the largest museums ever dedicated to 20th century art, possibly the best in terms of planning and general "feel...
Philbrick avoids moralizing, but his story has a Melvillean coda. Nantucket's pious Quakers never discussed their kinfolks' cannibalism publicly. Pollard wrecked his second ship and wound up a night watchman. With increasing competition and the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, Nantucket's whaling industry went into a tailspin, and the heirs to old families like the Macys, Coffins and Folgers went off-island to seek their fortunes. Score one for the whales...
...films coda is satisfying enough on both an intellectual and an emotional level, but the very concept of Sweet and Lowdown, with its invented biographical framework and loosely connected scenes, works against the film burning itself in your memory. Even Penns fiery Emmet is too contained by the movies conceit to really stick with you. Perhaps its symbolic of what Allen has achieved here that Mortons Hattie is the only character who transcends the movies clever but self-limiting setup. Though Allen is traditionally known for his witty, fast-paced dialogue, youll remember her silent, expressive eyes long after everything...