Word: codas
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...strange, ectoplasmic life in the pages of other people's books, most of them written by his former dancers at New York City Ballet. One, Gelsey Kirkland's angry, vengeful Dancing on My Grave (1986), made the best-seller lists. This year brings a slight but more genial coda from Kirkland and the memoir the dance world has been waiting for, from Mr. B.'s last muse, Suzanne Farrell...
...movies are gathering, like capos at the Appalachia conference, from all over America. You want Italian-American hoods of the New York City stripe? We got 'em by the hundreds in GoodFellas. In My Blue Heaven, written by Pileggi's wife Nora Ephron as a kind of comic coda to the Scorsese picture, Steve Martin plays a Mafia rat in a Witness Protection Program out West. At Christmas, Paramount has The Godfather Part III, a climax to the gangland Nibelungen Ring, starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and a cast of many Coppolas...
Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master's best, at least for its sheer, mirthful heartlessness. The author caps his tale with an insouciant coda that envisions his middle-age hero thinking of a return to the Wall, "before it was all torn down...
Good thing that coda, which is titled Gratitude, comes at the end of Frank Morgan's album Mood Indigo. Hearing it first and taking it at face value, casual listeners might figure they were in for an overdose of New Age good vibes and reach for the off button. That would mean missing out on some elegant alto sax, the kind of jazzmanship that combines the hip and the heartfelt in an accessible, up-to-the-minute sound...
Employees said that the average customer who uses the Personics System is in their early 20s. One employee, Joe Coda, said he was surprised that younger customers who had watched The Big Chill were requesting more oldies than older customers...